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Regen Living Ecosystem Wiki

2023-05-03T03:17:45Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Place-Based Catalyst Hubs */

=Regen Living Ecosystem=
* [[Regen Living DHO]] - A collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
*[[Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Projects]]
*[[Regen Living Roadmap]]

=Place-Based Catalyst Hubs=

===Commongrounds===
[[Commongrounds]] is a new 4-story, 50,000 s.f. $16 million development in Traverse City, Michigan cooperatively owned by nearly 600 members. It will feature a food incubator, coffeeshop, distillery, childcare center, cowering space for impact organizations and businesses, performing arts and events space, artist-in-residence space, and 24 workforce rental units. Construction began in Fall 2020, with tenants scheduled to move in by 2022.

=Mutualistic Communication + Governance=

==Regenerative Communication==
[[Regenerative communication]] - A holistic human-centric approach to communication. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore our collective sources of energy through resilient practices that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. Regenerative communication restores our connection to humanity and nature, by taking responsibility for our roles in co-creating a regenerative society.

==Partnerism==
[[Partnerism]] - A socio-economic system that values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future. Partnerism is based on [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_transformation_theory Cultural Transformation Theory], which proposes that societies used to follow a mutualistic, caring “partnership model” of civilization, giving way to today's current “dominator model” of civilization, but with growing evidence that we are returning to the partnership model.

==Prosocial==
[[Prosocial]] is an orientation toward the welfare of others and society as a whole. This might be an attitude, a behavior, or an institution. It might be directed toward family and friends or the social acceptance of all people. Ultimately, Prosocial is an entire worldview.

=Regeneration=
===Regenerative Systems===
[[Regenerative Systems]] - An overview of regenerative systems and their applications.

=Self Organization=
===Systems===
[[Self Organization|Self Organization Systems]] - A list of self-organizing systems.

===Sensemaking===
[[Sensemaking]] - A primer on the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences.

=Co-Creation=
[[Co-Creation Systems]] - Systems, models, tools for co-creation

=Regenerative Currency=
===SEEDS===
* [[SEEDS]] - An overview of the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[SEEDS Neighborhubs]] - A peer onboarding program for SEEDS members, learning and growing together
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS]] - A course on [[Partnerism]], an economic and cultural system based on nature and caring, as an alternative to domination culture.
* [[Regenerative Civics Incubator & Alliance]] - a program to pilot regenerative operating systems to place-based regenerative development projects.
* [[SEEDS_Changemakers_Program|SEEDS Changemakers Program]] - An ambassador program to onboard changemakers to SEEDS Citizens.
* [[SEEDS_Changemaker_Guide|SEEDS Changemaker Guide]] - A Changemaker's guide to participating in the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[SEEDS Changemakers Onboarding Pilot]] - An experimental program to onboard 100 changemakers without personal invites into SEEDS via the [[SEEDS_Changemakers_Program|SEEDS Changemakers Program]].
* [[SEEDS_Glossary|SEEDS Glossary]] - A glossary of key terms in the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[DAO/DHO Platform]] - A governance, operations, and tokenomics platform for Decentralized Autonomous/Human Organizations (DAO/DHOs).
* [[SEEDS_Roadmap_to_Globally_Regenerative_Economies|SEEDS Roadmap]] - An overview of the future of SEEDS.
* [[SEEDS_FAQ|SEEDS FAQ]] - Frequently asked questions.
* [[SEEDS_Gratitude|SEEDS Gratitude]] - An overview of the innovative gratitude system in SEEDS.
* [[Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies]] - A framework for ecosystem building based on Theory
* [[Regenerative Communication]] - A holistic human-centric approach to communication.

===Universal Dividend - Free currency - Ğ1 ===
* Short introduction https://vimeo.com/737854276
* https://g1currency.org/?PagePrincipale Website in English
* [[Ğ1]]

=== $REGEN===
* Website https://www.regen.network/
* [[REGEN]]
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=Regenerative Urban Planning and Development=
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* [https://formbasedcodes.org Form-based Codes Institute] - The organization that supports regenerative urban planning operating systems known as form-based codes.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-based_code Form-based Codes] - Form-based codes are a planning and development code that prioritizes physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for regenerative development. The SmartCode is one example of a form-based code.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartCode SmartCode] - A regenerative urban planning and development operating system and form-based code.
* [https://transect.org/codes.html SmartCode documents] - SmartCode documents.
* [https://www.cnu.org/who-we-are/charter-new-urbanism Charter for New Urbanism] - A set of principles and guide for regenerative community planning and development.

=Resources=

* [[Glossary]] - Terms that define the co-creation of a world of mutuality
* [https://positiveblockchain.io/ Database of blockchain for good projects]
* [[List of Regenerative organizations]]
* [[List of Regenerative events]]
* [https://t.me/+x44Nc2wd4EVhNjFi Refi Telegram group]
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Regenerative communication

2023-02-08T21:45:03Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Overview */

'''Regenerative communication''' is a holistic human-centric approach to communication. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore our collective sources of energy through resilient practices that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. Regenerative communication restores our connection to humanity and nature, by taking responsibility for our roles in co-creating a regenerative society.

=Foundational practices=

==Restorative practice==
[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restorative_practices Restorative practice] is a social science that studies how to improve and repair relationships between people and communities. The purpose is to build healthy communities, increase social capital, decrease crime and antisocial behavior, repair harm and restore relationships. It ties together research in a variety of social science fields, including education, psychology, social work, criminology, sociology, organizational development and leadership. learning and decision making. For example, [[Regenerative_communication#Restorative_circle|restorative circles]] and [[Regenerative_communication#Restorative_conference|restorative conferences]] allow victims, offenders and all those affected to come together to explore just how everyone has been affected by an offense and, when possible, to decide how to repair the harm and meet their own needs. [https://www.edutopia.org/article/building-community-restorative-circles Example guide].

===Restorative circle===
A [https://thewriteofyourlife.org/what-are-restorative-circles/ restorative circle] is a technique that builds and restores relationships through equal opportunity sharing and listening. These talking circles proactively build the skills individuals need when conflicts arise because they give every individual the opportunity to speak and be heard. Restorative circles are especially beneficial for youth learning how to negotiate conflict, as they help them practice respectful listening and healthy self-expression.

===Restorative conference===
A [https://www.iirp.edu/defining-restorative/restorative-conference restorative conference] is a structured meeting between offenders, victims and both parties’ family and friends, in which they deal with the consequences of the crime or wrongdoing and decide how best to repair the harm. Neither a counseling nor a mediation process, conferencing is a victim-sensitive, straightforward problem-solving method that demonstrates how citizens can resolve their own problems when provided with a constructive forum to do so. Conferences provide victims and others with an opportunity to confront the offender, express their feelings, ask questions and have a say in the outcome. Offenders hear firsthand how their behavior has affected people. Offenders may choose to participate in a conference and begin to repair the harm they have caused by apologizing, making amends and agreeing to financial restitution or personal or community service work. [https://www.iirp.edu/defining-restorative/restorative-conference Example guidelines].

==Nonviolent communication==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication Nonviolent communication (NVC)] is an approach to communication based on principles of nonviolence. It is not a technique to end disagreements, but rather a method designed to increase empathy and improve the quality of life of those who utilize the method and the people around them. Nonviolent communication evolved from concepts used in person-centered therapy, and was developed by clinical psychologist Marshall Rosenberg beginning in the 1960s and 1970s. There is a large ecosystem of workshops and clinical and self-help materials about NVC. Rosenberg's book Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life, popular as a self-help book and psychotherapy textbook, is considered the authoritative text about the concept.

==Conflict resolution==
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict_resolution Conflict resolution] is conceptualized as the methods and processes involved in facilitating the peaceful ending of conflict and retribution. Committed group members attempt to resolve group conflicts by actively communicating information about their conflicting motives or ideologies to the rest of group (e.g., intentions; reasons for holding certain beliefs) and by engaging in collective negotiation. Dimensions of resolution typically parallel the dimensions of conflict in the way the conflict is processed. Cognitive resolution is the way disputants understand and view the conflict, with beliefs, perspectives, understandings and attitudes. Emotional resolution is in the way disputants feel about a conflict, the emotional energy. Behavioral resolution is reflective of how the disputants act, their behavior. Ultimately a wide range of methods and procedures for addressing conflict exist, including negotiation, mediation, mediation-arbitration, diplomacy, and creative peace building.

=Basic training=

==Overview==
As community leaders, this process is how we take responsibility for our role in actualizing each other in developing a regenerative culture. Participants are trained in regenerative communication through a program known as the [https://www.centreforpeacefulsolutions.org/dialogue-road-map/ Dialogue Road Map], facilitated by [https://www.centreforpeacefulsolutions.org/staff/maria-arpa Maria Arpa]. Maria was recently the executive director of the [https://cnvc.org Center for Nonviolent Communication]. The video is from a recent conversation where she talks about the origin of her work, and what it takes to implement in a community: {{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/_N120XnSHEU}}

This program supports local communities looking to train a group of certified mediation counselors and regenerative communications stewards. These graduates will be a foundation from which we develop a caring-based regenerative culture, including a conflict resolution program.

This Dialogue Road Map training is intended to reach people in regenerative communities who want to design a nonviolent/healing/restorative response to conflict and who have the authority or influence to pave the way for change. It is intended to benefit the community as a community practice, not to benefit individual practitioners utilizing it for private practice.

Applications:
* One-to-one settings
* Mediating disputes
* Facilitating circles
* Building ground up community structures based on nonviolence, healing, restorative practice and love

We will present an orientation on March 21 as an introduction to the Dialogue Road Map and how it works in communities, groups and organizations.

Then we will select a group to undertake the year long training once sponsorship is found. Maria Arpa is founder of a nonprofit and all income generated goes towards the running of the nonprofit. Therefore this is not a commercial proposition and must not be treated as such.

Out of the one year training you will be skilled and accomplished at working with people in conflict:
* As a therapist/coach in one to one sessions
* As a mediator for two party disputes
* As a facilitator in group conflict, decision making and topic based dialogue.

As places are limited please tell us something about:
# The community you belong to that can benefit from conflict resolution and tools for better collaboration
# Your role or position in that community and how you will effect change
# Any previous learning, capacity and resilience in conflict situations

==A Dialogue Road Map Conversation==
The following example only applies if there isn’t already a trusted or psychologically safe environment.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|One Regenerative vs Degenerative Conversation Example
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|'''Dialogue Road Map'''
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|'''Domination Culture'''
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|1. Listening
|'What I hear you're saying...'
|1. Feedback
|'What you should do is...'
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|2. Probing
|'Is there anything else?'
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|3. Empathy
|Identifying feelings and needs
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|4. Feedback
|'Would you be open to feedback?'
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|5. Support
|'Would you be open to support?'
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==Conditions==
Because this is highly sensitive work, to the very best of your ability…
* You agree to use a high-speed internet connection and have familiarized yourself with Zoom. These trainings are designed to be done in person.
* You agree to join from a laptop or computer screen (not a phone)
* You agree to sit in a well lit space with your head and shoulders facing square onto the camera and not to move around.
* You agree to keep your camera on at all times (except for breaks)
* You agree to attend in a silent and private location that enables you to participate without background noise or interruption
* You understand that you are responsible and accountable to the whole group therefore if you miss any sessions Maria will make the call on whether you have missed too much to continue and her decision is final.
* You understand that if your internet is not stable or you have background disturbances Maria may put you in the waiting room without notice in order to minimize disruption.
* You agree not to record any part of the training or have anyone listening in who is not on camera as a participant
* Because the tools provided are meant to be utilized only by trained practitioners, you agree not to share, distribute, broadcast, adapt or use in part or in whole, any of the training materials shared with you without written permission from the facilitator.

[https://t.me/regenerativecommunication Join this Telegram group] if you're interested in participating.

=Facilitator training=
The ability to train others requires completion of a nine-month program, based on the [[Regenerative_communication#Basic_training|basic training program]]:
* 20 total days (5 hours a day) in a year. This is 100 total hours over nine months, facilitated 2-3 days at a time, 6 times a year.
* 4 hours/month practice with fellow participants.

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LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-16T18:26:03Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Ledger */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Role'''
|-
|Summer 2022
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|December 2022
|Neil Takemoto
|$725
|Property appraisal
|-
|December 2022
|Neil Takemoto
|$725
|Property appraisal
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
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|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
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|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-06T00:03:04Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Private to Cooperative Ownership */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-02T21:11:16Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property revenue */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="6"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Rent w/ $100K improvements'''
|'''Education + Demonstration'''
|'''Retreats + Therapy'''
|'''Farm Products'''
|'''NFT program'''
|-
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
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!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

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!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
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|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
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|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-02T21:10:40Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property revenue */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="6"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Rent w/ $100K improvements'''
|'''Education + Demonstration'''
|'''Therapy + Demonstration'''
|'''Farm Products'''
|'''NFT program'''
|-
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-02T21:09:08Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property revenue */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $100K improvements'''
|'''Education program'''
|'''Farm Products'''
|'''NFT program'''
|-
|$0
|$0
|$0
|$0
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-12-02T21:08:06Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property revenue */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $100K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$0
|$0
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
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!colspan="4"|Contributions
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|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
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|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
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|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

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!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
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|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
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|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

Partnerism

2022-11-11T18:38:08Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Partnerism.jpg|thumb]]'''Partnerism''' is an economic and social system based on [[Partnerism#Defining_caring|caring]] and nature, with an emphasis on a social system based on equality of women and men. It is a direct alternative to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture domination culture], an economic and social system ruled or dominated by men. Unlike Capitalism and Socialism, Partnerism recognizes the economic value of care and adequately rewards it in both the market and non-market sectors. Partnerism was first coined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler Riane Eisler] in [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations] and most internationally recognized in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade The Chalice and the Blade].

=Domination/Partnership Social Scale=

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination/Partnership Social Scale
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|In groups and out groups
|Everyone matters
|-
|Hierarchies of domination
|Hierarchies of actualization
|-
|Power maintained by force and fear
|Increase in liberty and expression
|-
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Inequality]
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Equality]: gender, race, etc
|-
|Ignores economic value of caring
|Care is valued economically
|-
|Violence and abuse
|Human flourishing and creativity
|}

=Hierarchies of Actualization=
A Partnership System is not a completely flat structure. We can’t just do away with hierarchies. Sometimes someone has to make a decision. Riane Eisler coined the term “Hierarchies of Actualization” to describe how hierarchies are constructed in Partnership Systems. In Hierarchies of Actualization, parents, managers, leaders and others in positions of authority seek to uplift and empower others.
In hierarchies of domination, rigid rankings are used to control others and keep people deemed inferior “in their place".

=The Four Cornerstones=
Riane Eisler’s research reveals four interactive levers for shifting away from domination systems toward Partnership Systems. Eisler’s scholarship directs us to focus our efforts in these four areas as foundational to build Partnership Systems. In a hierarchy of domination, accountability, mutual respect/ mutual benefitonly flow from the bottom up. In a Hierarchy of Actualization, they flow both ways. And that’s a huge difference.

===Family & Childhood relations===
'''Partnerism values the work of caring.'''<br>
Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, starting at birth, determines how our brains develop and therefore how we think, feel, and act. Infants and children absorb partnership or domination worldview's from parents' relationships with each other and from their relationships with parents and siblings, long before they go to school and long before critical mental faculties are developed.

===Gender relations===
'''Partnerism values all people, regardless of gender or other differences.'''</br>
How a society constructs gender roles and relations not only affects everyone’s individual life options; it affects families, education, religion, politics, and economics. When people learn to equate the physical differences between male and female with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving, they internalize a template that can automatically be applied elsewhere: race, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, etc..

===Economic relations===
'''Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.'''<br>
The gap between haves and have-nots has been growing among and within nations. This is a crisis. Moving to a more robust, sustainable and humane economics is not only vital for human and environmental reasons, but for purely economic ones. A caring economics of Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.

===Narrative/Language===
'''Partnerism supports empathetic, mutually beneficial, caring relationships.'''<br>
We need the language of partnership systems to transcend old categories and to describe beneficial social and economic systems. A caring democracy requires accurate narratives about 'human nature'. This will require a concerted effort in which the arts, music, literature, and education are informed and inspired by science and caring values.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination vs Partnerism Languaging
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|We are shooting for a Thursday deadline
|Our intention is to complete this project by Thursday
|-
|We are aiming to finish
|Our plan is to finish
|-
|Let's target this demographic
|Let's focus on this demographic
|-
|I dodged a bullet
|Things worked out for the best
|-
|Deadline
|Deliverables, due date, tasks done, life cycle
|-
|Fight injustice
|Heal injustice
|-
|Killing time
|Filling time
|-
|Mankind
|Humankind
|-
|Kill two birds with one stone
|Feed two birds with one scone
|-
|I really killed it/crushed it/nailed it
|I really brought it to life
|-
|I will what that into shape
|I will concentrate on this project
|-
|Take a stab at
|Attempt, try
|-
|Things went South
|Things went downhill from there
|-
|Spearhead an effort
|Initiate an effort
|-
|Man the office
|Staff the office
|-
|Command central
|Action hub
|-
|Dumbing down
|Simplifying, humanizing
|}

=New Economic Map=
The Partnerism economic model includes the full spectrum of economic relations, from how humans relate to our natural habitat. This requires a complete and accurate map that includes all economic sectors with the household as the core inner sector. In the dominator economy, the foundational economic sectors, household, unpaid community, and natural are N/A (not applicable), omitted.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|New Economic Map
|-
|
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|'''Examples'''
|-
|Household economy
|N/A
|Core sector
|Caring, caregiving
|-
|Unpaid community economy
|N/A
|Second sector
|Volunteering, barter, community currency
|-
|Market economy
|Core sector
|Third sector
|The conventional fiat economy
|-
|Illegal economy
|Second sector
|Fourth sector
|Drug/sex/arms trade
|-
|Government economy
|Third sector
|Fifth sector
|Policies/laws/rules governing market economy; public services
|-
|Natural economy
|N/A
|Sixth sector
|Natural environment
|}

=Restructuring Economic Systems=
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Restructuring Economic Systems
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|'''Ignore''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|'''Recognize''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|-
|Rules, policies, and practices '''inhibit''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|Rules, policies, and practices '''support''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|-
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''control and domination.'''
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''caring and partnership.'''
|-
|Measurements of economic productivity include activities that harm people and nature, and '''fail to include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|Measurements of economic productivity exclude activities that harm people and nature, and '''include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|-
|Economic structures are designed to support concentration of assets and power at the top, with little accountability to those on bottom.
|Economic structures are participatory and equitable, designed to support mutual accountability and benefit.
|-
|Human needs and capacities are often exploited, and nature is depleted and polluted.
|Human needs and capacities are nurtured, and our natural habitat is conserved.
|-
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''inadequate'''.
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''a top priority'''.
|-
|Is not sustainable at our level of technology in an inextricably interconnected world.
|Can help us meet the social, economic, and ecological challenges we face.
|}

=Social Wealth Economic Indicators=
SWEIs inform us that environmental work and care work, which is the work of caring for others, such as children or the sick and disabled or the elderly, yields significant economic value. Learn more [https://centerforpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SWEI-Executive-Summary-and-Core-Indicators-2.pdf here].

==Human Capacity Indicators==
Human Capacity Indicators (HCIs) measure the output dimension, i.e., the degree of human capacity development, where human capacity is understood to refer to the capacities that people learn to utilize not only in service of their own advancement but also in collaboration with others for the advancement of the society and economy in which they live. They are divided into seven subcategories:
# Caregiving Measures
# Education Measures
# Health Measures
# Social Connectivity and Cohesion Measures
# Environmental Measures
# Social Equity Measures
# Entrepreneurship and Innovation Measures

==Care Investment Indicators==
Care Investment Indicators (CIIs) measure inputs into the creation of human capacity, i.e., the extent of government and business support for care work, in the form of budgetary allocations, family-friendly laws and workplace practices, and so on. They are divided into four subcategories:
# Government Investment in Care Work
# Business Investment in Care Work
# Public and Private Investment in Protecting the Environment
# Comparative Investment Data

=History=
In the prehistory of humans, partnership used to be the norm. In both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, there are examples of matriarchal societies preceding patriarchies. British archaeologist James Mellaart, for example, reported a Neolithic site with many female images and no signs of destructive warfare for almost 1000 years. For thousands of years, people lived in these peaceful partnership societies, until warlike nomadic tribes disrupted the balance with their dominator cultures (5000 B.C.E., 3000 B.C.E.).

===The Paleolithic Age (3 million to 10,000 B.C.E.)===
Cave art, dating back over 30,000 years from the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, Stone Age, does not express any form of domination culture. Instead of images celebrating the power to take life, what we instead see are images celebrating the life giving and nurturing powers of nature, often as incarnated in the body of woman.

===The Neolithic Age (10,000 to 3000 B.C.E.)===
In the Neolithic or first agrarian cultures going back about 10,000 years, we first see a profusion of female images, and, reflecting a massive cultural shift, their disappearance toward its end. We see the first signs of domination culture stemming from nomadic culture around 5000 B.C.E., and becoming widespread by 3000 B.C.E.

===The Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.)===
The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete was a high civilization: a technologically, artistically, economically, and socially developed, centralized society, that flourished under a partnership-oriented system, with art, governance, economy and architecture that revered women and nature. It was one of the last remaining large-scale partnership civilizations in the world until domination culture replaced it.

=Economy Policy=
The economic policy goal of Parnerism is in developing the human capabilities of each person, not the level of monetary income per person.

=Resources=

'''Education programs in Regenerative Development'''
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS|Partnerism in Regeneration]]

'''Websites'''
* [http://partnerism.org partnerism.org] - Information site dedicated to activating a mainstream movement to build Partnership-based economic and social systems
* [http://centerforpartnership.org centerforpartnership.org] - Center for Partnership Systems website
* [http://learnpartnership.org learnpartnership.org] - Learning center for partnerism with a focus on courses

'''Foundational Books'''
* [https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Riane Eisler, 1988)] - The most comprehensive explanation of how and why partnership and domination societies were conceptualized and normalized. Its main message is that our social norms frame our reality, but norms can be evolved towards peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Our-Humanity-Domination-Partnership/dp/0190935723 Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination & Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Riane Eisler, 2019)]
* [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Riane Eisler, 2008)]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Way-Learning-Practical-Companion/dp/0062502905 The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") (Riane Eisler, 1990)] - Provides group exercises and activities as well as case studies of groups from different sectors learning about and implementing partnerism.

'''Additional Books'''
* Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body – New Paths to Power and Love - An intensive read on politics and inequality throughout written history, ex. institutionalized patriarchy.
* Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future - Research and insight in the neuroscience behind the two social systems of partnership and domination respectively and how they shape our internal and external realities. It addresses the importance of childhood experiences and learning, and our true human instincts of caring and compassion.

'''Documents'''

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aV8Fn6N0UoJHUD_NpzSbjzsELQtXFe_c Partnership Systems & Partnerism One Page] - An informative infographic that highlights all the main components and building blocks of partnerism.
* [https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/turn-20-everyday-phrases-from-negative-to-positive How to Turn 20 Everyday Phrases From Negative to Positive] - Shifting towards partnership/positive rhetoric and dismantling underlying violent/domination norms]

=Partnerism Media Kit=
[https://centerforpartnership.org/media-kit/ Link to Partnerism Media Kit pdf] by Center for Partnership Systems<br>
[[File:Partnerismmediakit1.jpg]]
[[File:Partnerismmediakit2.jpg]]

=Defining caring=
Caring, caregiving in Partnerism are defined as activities guided by a caring orientation over a longer time horizon. It not only fulfills human needs and aspirations, it also offers a wholly different approach to business and government policies that are both financially and socially profitable. A caring orientation includes giving visibility and value to:
* the work of caring for children, the sick, and the elderly in households
* caring work in the market economy, such as child care, teaching, nursing, and caring for people in retirement homes
* being ethical in business and government
* the civic labor of building healthy communities, the social justice labor of progressive social movements, and the environmental labor needed to preserve a healthy natural environment for ourselves and future generations.
A caring orientation is also distinguished by a longer time horizon, taking into account short-term and long-term considerations.
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Partnerism

2022-11-11T18:37:51Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Partnerism.jpg|thumb]]'''Partnerism''' is an economic and social system based on nature and [[Partnerism#Defining_caring|caring]], with an emphasis on a social system based on equality of women and men. It is a direct alternative to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture domination culture], an economic and social system ruled or dominated by men. Unlike Capitalism and Socialism, Partnerism recognizes the economic value of care and adequately rewards it in both the market and non-market sectors. Partnerism was first coined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler Riane Eisler] in [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations] and most internationally recognized in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade The Chalice and the Blade].

=Domination/Partnership Social Scale=

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination/Partnership Social Scale
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|In groups and out groups
|Everyone matters
|-
|Hierarchies of domination
|Hierarchies of actualization
|-
|Power maintained by force and fear
|Increase in liberty and expression
|-
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Inequality]
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Equality]: gender, race, etc
|-
|Ignores economic value of caring
|Care is valued economically
|-
|Violence and abuse
|Human flourishing and creativity
|}

=Hierarchies of Actualization=
A Partnership System is not a completely flat structure. We can’t just do away with hierarchies. Sometimes someone has to make a decision. Riane Eisler coined the term “Hierarchies of Actualization” to describe how hierarchies are constructed in Partnership Systems. In Hierarchies of Actualization, parents, managers, leaders and others in positions of authority seek to uplift and empower others.
In hierarchies of domination, rigid rankings are used to control others and keep people deemed inferior “in their place".

=The Four Cornerstones=
Riane Eisler’s research reveals four interactive levers for shifting away from domination systems toward Partnership Systems. Eisler’s scholarship directs us to focus our efforts in these four areas as foundational to build Partnership Systems. In a hierarchy of domination, accountability, mutual respect/ mutual benefitonly flow from the bottom up. In a Hierarchy of Actualization, they flow both ways. And that’s a huge difference.

===Family & Childhood relations===
'''Partnerism values the work of caring.'''<br>
Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, starting at birth, determines how our brains develop and therefore how we think, feel, and act. Infants and children absorb partnership or domination worldview's from parents' relationships with each other and from their relationships with parents and siblings, long before they go to school and long before critical mental faculties are developed.

===Gender relations===
'''Partnerism values all people, regardless of gender or other differences.'''</br>
How a society constructs gender roles and relations not only affects everyone’s individual life options; it affects families, education, religion, politics, and economics. When people learn to equate the physical differences between male and female with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving, they internalize a template that can automatically be applied elsewhere: race, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, etc..

===Economic relations===
'''Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.'''<br>
The gap between haves and have-nots has been growing among and within nations. This is a crisis. Moving to a more robust, sustainable and humane economics is not only vital for human and environmental reasons, but for purely economic ones. A caring economics of Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.

===Narrative/Language===
'''Partnerism supports empathetic, mutually beneficial, caring relationships.'''<br>
We need the language of partnership systems to transcend old categories and to describe beneficial social and economic systems. A caring democracy requires accurate narratives about 'human nature'. This will require a concerted effort in which the arts, music, literature, and education are informed and inspired by science and caring values.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination vs Partnerism Languaging
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|We are shooting for a Thursday deadline
|Our intention is to complete this project by Thursday
|-
|We are aiming to finish
|Our plan is to finish
|-
|Let's target this demographic
|Let's focus on this demographic
|-
|I dodged a bullet
|Things worked out for the best
|-
|Deadline
|Deliverables, due date, tasks done, life cycle
|-
|Fight injustice
|Heal injustice
|-
|Killing time
|Filling time
|-
|Mankind
|Humankind
|-
|Kill two birds with one stone
|Feed two birds with one scone
|-
|I really killed it/crushed it/nailed it
|I really brought it to life
|-
|I will what that into shape
|I will concentrate on this project
|-
|Take a stab at
|Attempt, try
|-
|Things went South
|Things went downhill from there
|-
|Spearhead an effort
|Initiate an effort
|-
|Man the office
|Staff the office
|-
|Command central
|Action hub
|-
|Dumbing down
|Simplifying, humanizing
|}

=New Economic Map=
The Partnerism economic model includes the full spectrum of economic relations, from how humans relate to our natural habitat. This requires a complete and accurate map that includes all economic sectors with the household as the core inner sector. In the dominator economy, the foundational economic sectors, household, unpaid community, and natural are N/A (not applicable), omitted.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|New Economic Map
|-
|
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|'''Examples'''
|-
|Household economy
|N/A
|Core sector
|Caring, caregiving
|-
|Unpaid community economy
|N/A
|Second sector
|Volunteering, barter, community currency
|-
|Market economy
|Core sector
|Third sector
|The conventional fiat economy
|-
|Illegal economy
|Second sector
|Fourth sector
|Drug/sex/arms trade
|-
|Government economy
|Third sector
|Fifth sector
|Policies/laws/rules governing market economy; public services
|-
|Natural economy
|N/A
|Sixth sector
|Natural environment
|}

=Restructuring Economic Systems=
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Restructuring Economic Systems
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|'''Ignore''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|'''Recognize''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|-
|Rules, policies, and practices '''inhibit''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|Rules, policies, and practices '''support''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|-
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''control and domination.'''
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''caring and partnership.'''
|-
|Measurements of economic productivity include activities that harm people and nature, and '''fail to include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|Measurements of economic productivity exclude activities that harm people and nature, and '''include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|-
|Economic structures are designed to support concentration of assets and power at the top, with little accountability to those on bottom.
|Economic structures are participatory and equitable, designed to support mutual accountability and benefit.
|-
|Human needs and capacities are often exploited, and nature is depleted and polluted.
|Human needs and capacities are nurtured, and our natural habitat is conserved.
|-
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''inadequate'''.
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''a top priority'''.
|-
|Is not sustainable at our level of technology in an inextricably interconnected world.
|Can help us meet the social, economic, and ecological challenges we face.
|}

=Social Wealth Economic Indicators=
SWEIs inform us that environmental work and care work, which is the work of caring for others, such as children or the sick and disabled or the elderly, yields significant economic value. Learn more [https://centerforpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SWEI-Executive-Summary-and-Core-Indicators-2.pdf here].

==Human Capacity Indicators==
Human Capacity Indicators (HCIs) measure the output dimension, i.e., the degree of human capacity development, where human capacity is understood to refer to the capacities that people learn to utilize not only in service of their own advancement but also in collaboration with others for the advancement of the society and economy in which they live. They are divided into seven subcategories:
# Caregiving Measures
# Education Measures
# Health Measures
# Social Connectivity and Cohesion Measures
# Environmental Measures
# Social Equity Measures
# Entrepreneurship and Innovation Measures

==Care Investment Indicators==
Care Investment Indicators (CIIs) measure inputs into the creation of human capacity, i.e., the extent of government and business support for care work, in the form of budgetary allocations, family-friendly laws and workplace practices, and so on. They are divided into four subcategories:
# Government Investment in Care Work
# Business Investment in Care Work
# Public and Private Investment in Protecting the Environment
# Comparative Investment Data

=History=
In the prehistory of humans, partnership used to be the norm. In both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, there are examples of matriarchal societies preceding patriarchies. British archaeologist James Mellaart, for example, reported a Neolithic site with many female images and no signs of destructive warfare for almost 1000 years. For thousands of years, people lived in these peaceful partnership societies, until warlike nomadic tribes disrupted the balance with their dominator cultures (5000 B.C.E., 3000 B.C.E.).

===The Paleolithic Age (3 million to 10,000 B.C.E.)===
Cave art, dating back over 30,000 years from the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, Stone Age, does not express any form of domination culture. Instead of images celebrating the power to take life, what we instead see are images celebrating the life giving and nurturing powers of nature, often as incarnated in the body of woman.

===The Neolithic Age (10,000 to 3000 B.C.E.)===
In the Neolithic or first agrarian cultures going back about 10,000 years, we first see a profusion of female images, and, reflecting a massive cultural shift, their disappearance toward its end. We see the first signs of domination culture stemming from nomadic culture around 5000 B.C.E., and becoming widespread by 3000 B.C.E.

===The Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.)===
The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete was a high civilization: a technologically, artistically, economically, and socially developed, centralized society, that flourished under a partnership-oriented system, with art, governance, economy and architecture that revered women and nature. It was one of the last remaining large-scale partnership civilizations in the world until domination culture replaced it.

=Economy Policy=
The economic policy goal of Parnerism is in developing the human capabilities of each person, not the level of monetary income per person.

=Resources=

'''Education programs in Regenerative Development'''
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS|Partnerism in Regeneration]]

'''Websites'''
* [http://partnerism.org partnerism.org] - Information site dedicated to activating a mainstream movement to build Partnership-based economic and social systems
* [http://centerforpartnership.org centerforpartnership.org] - Center for Partnership Systems website
* [http://learnpartnership.org learnpartnership.org] - Learning center for partnerism with a focus on courses

'''Foundational Books'''
* [https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Riane Eisler, 1988)] - The most comprehensive explanation of how and why partnership and domination societies were conceptualized and normalized. Its main message is that our social norms frame our reality, but norms can be evolved towards peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Our-Humanity-Domination-Partnership/dp/0190935723 Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination & Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Riane Eisler, 2019)]
* [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Riane Eisler, 2008)]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Way-Learning-Practical-Companion/dp/0062502905 The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") (Riane Eisler, 1990)] - Provides group exercises and activities as well as case studies of groups from different sectors learning about and implementing partnerism.

'''Additional Books'''
* Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body – New Paths to Power and Love - An intensive read on politics and inequality throughout written history, ex. institutionalized patriarchy.
* Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future - Research and insight in the neuroscience behind the two social systems of partnership and domination respectively and how they shape our internal and external realities. It addresses the importance of childhood experiences and learning, and our true human instincts of caring and compassion.

'''Documents'''

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aV8Fn6N0UoJHUD_NpzSbjzsELQtXFe_c Partnership Systems & Partnerism One Page] - An informative infographic that highlights all the main components and building blocks of partnerism.
* [https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/turn-20-everyday-phrases-from-negative-to-positive How to Turn 20 Everyday Phrases From Negative to Positive] - Shifting towards partnership/positive rhetoric and dismantling underlying violent/domination norms]

=Partnerism Media Kit=
[https://centerforpartnership.org/media-kit/ Link to Partnerism Media Kit pdf] by Center for Partnership Systems<br>
[[File:Partnerismmediakit1.jpg]]
[[File:Partnerismmediakit2.jpg]]

=Defining caring=
Caring, caregiving in Partnerism are defined as activities guided by a caring orientation over a longer time horizon. It not only fulfills human needs and aspirations, it also offers a wholly different approach to business and government policies that are both financially and socially profitable. A caring orientation includes giving visibility and value to:
* the work of caring for children, the sick, and the elderly in households
* caring work in the market economy, such as child care, teaching, nursing, and caring for people in retirement homes
* being ethical in business and government
* the civic labor of building healthy communities, the social justice labor of progressive social movements, and the environmental labor needed to preserve a healthy natural environment for ourselves and future generations.
A caring orientation is also distinguished by a longer time horizon, taking into account short-term and long-term considerations.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

Partnerism

2022-11-11T18:37:41Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Partnerism.jpg|thumb]]'''Partnerism''' is an economic and cultural system based on nature and [[Partnerism#Defining_caring|caring]], with an emphasis on a social system based on equality of women and men. It is a direct alternative to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture domination culture], an economic and social system ruled or dominated by men. Unlike Capitalism and Socialism, Partnerism recognizes the economic value of care and adequately rewards it in both the market and non-market sectors. Partnerism was first coined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler Riane Eisler] in [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations] and most internationally recognized in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade The Chalice and the Blade].

=Domination/Partnership Social Scale=

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination/Partnership Social Scale
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|In groups and out groups
|Everyone matters
|-
|Hierarchies of domination
|Hierarchies of actualization
|-
|Power maintained by force and fear
|Increase in liberty and expression
|-
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Inequality]
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Equality]: gender, race, etc
|-
|Ignores economic value of caring
|Care is valued economically
|-
|Violence and abuse
|Human flourishing and creativity
|}

=Hierarchies of Actualization=
A Partnership System is not a completely flat structure. We can’t just do away with hierarchies. Sometimes someone has to make a decision. Riane Eisler coined the term “Hierarchies of Actualization” to describe how hierarchies are constructed in Partnership Systems. In Hierarchies of Actualization, parents, managers, leaders and others in positions of authority seek to uplift and empower others.
In hierarchies of domination, rigid rankings are used to control others and keep people deemed inferior “in their place".

=The Four Cornerstones=
Riane Eisler’s research reveals four interactive levers for shifting away from domination systems toward Partnership Systems. Eisler’s scholarship directs us to focus our efforts in these four areas as foundational to build Partnership Systems. In a hierarchy of domination, accountability, mutual respect/ mutual benefitonly flow from the bottom up. In a Hierarchy of Actualization, they flow both ways. And that’s a huge difference.

===Family & Childhood relations===
'''Partnerism values the work of caring.'''<br>
Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, starting at birth, determines how our brains develop and therefore how we think, feel, and act. Infants and children absorb partnership or domination worldview's from parents' relationships with each other and from their relationships with parents and siblings, long before they go to school and long before critical mental faculties are developed.

===Gender relations===
'''Partnerism values all people, regardless of gender or other differences.'''</br>
How a society constructs gender roles and relations not only affects everyone’s individual life options; it affects families, education, religion, politics, and economics. When people learn to equate the physical differences between male and female with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving, they internalize a template that can automatically be applied elsewhere: race, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, etc..

===Economic relations===
'''Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.'''<br>
The gap between haves and have-nots has been growing among and within nations. This is a crisis. Moving to a more robust, sustainable and humane economics is not only vital for human and environmental reasons, but for purely economic ones. A caring economics of Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.

===Narrative/Language===
'''Partnerism supports empathetic, mutually beneficial, caring relationships.'''<br>
We need the language of partnership systems to transcend old categories and to describe beneficial social and economic systems. A caring democracy requires accurate narratives about 'human nature'. This will require a concerted effort in which the arts, music, literature, and education are informed and inspired by science and caring values.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination vs Partnerism Languaging
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|We are shooting for a Thursday deadline
|Our intention is to complete this project by Thursday
|-
|We are aiming to finish
|Our plan is to finish
|-
|Let's target this demographic
|Let's focus on this demographic
|-
|I dodged a bullet
|Things worked out for the best
|-
|Deadline
|Deliverables, due date, tasks done, life cycle
|-
|Fight injustice
|Heal injustice
|-
|Killing time
|Filling time
|-
|Mankind
|Humankind
|-
|Kill two birds with one stone
|Feed two birds with one scone
|-
|I really killed it/crushed it/nailed it
|I really brought it to life
|-
|I will what that into shape
|I will concentrate on this project
|-
|Take a stab at
|Attempt, try
|-
|Things went South
|Things went downhill from there
|-
|Spearhead an effort
|Initiate an effort
|-
|Man the office
|Staff the office
|-
|Command central
|Action hub
|-
|Dumbing down
|Simplifying, humanizing
|}

=New Economic Map=
The Partnerism economic model includes the full spectrum of economic relations, from how humans relate to our natural habitat. This requires a complete and accurate map that includes all economic sectors with the household as the core inner sector. In the dominator economy, the foundational economic sectors, household, unpaid community, and natural are N/A (not applicable), omitted.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|New Economic Map
|-
|
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|'''Examples'''
|-
|Household economy
|N/A
|Core sector
|Caring, caregiving
|-
|Unpaid community economy
|N/A
|Second sector
|Volunteering, barter, community currency
|-
|Market economy
|Core sector
|Third sector
|The conventional fiat economy
|-
|Illegal economy
|Second sector
|Fourth sector
|Drug/sex/arms trade
|-
|Government economy
|Third sector
|Fifth sector
|Policies/laws/rules governing market economy; public services
|-
|Natural economy
|N/A
|Sixth sector
|Natural environment
|}

=Restructuring Economic Systems=
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Restructuring Economic Systems
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|'''Ignore''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|'''Recognize''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|-
|Rules, policies, and practices '''inhibit''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|Rules, policies, and practices '''support''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|-
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''control and domination.'''
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''caring and partnership.'''
|-
|Measurements of economic productivity include activities that harm people and nature, and '''fail to include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|Measurements of economic productivity exclude activities that harm people and nature, and '''include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|-
|Economic structures are designed to support concentration of assets and power at the top, with little accountability to those on bottom.
|Economic structures are participatory and equitable, designed to support mutual accountability and benefit.
|-
|Human needs and capacities are often exploited, and nature is depleted and polluted.
|Human needs and capacities are nurtured, and our natural habitat is conserved.
|-
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''inadequate'''.
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''a top priority'''.
|-
|Is not sustainable at our level of technology in an inextricably interconnected world.
|Can help us meet the social, economic, and ecological challenges we face.
|}

=Social Wealth Economic Indicators=
SWEIs inform us that environmental work and care work, which is the work of caring for others, such as children or the sick and disabled or the elderly, yields significant economic value. Learn more [https://centerforpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SWEI-Executive-Summary-and-Core-Indicators-2.pdf here].

==Human Capacity Indicators==
Human Capacity Indicators (HCIs) measure the output dimension, i.e., the degree of human capacity development, where human capacity is understood to refer to the capacities that people learn to utilize not only in service of their own advancement but also in collaboration with others for the advancement of the society and economy in which they live. They are divided into seven subcategories:
# Caregiving Measures
# Education Measures
# Health Measures
# Social Connectivity and Cohesion Measures
# Environmental Measures
# Social Equity Measures
# Entrepreneurship and Innovation Measures

==Care Investment Indicators==
Care Investment Indicators (CIIs) measure inputs into the creation of human capacity, i.e., the extent of government and business support for care work, in the form of budgetary allocations, family-friendly laws and workplace practices, and so on. They are divided into four subcategories:
# Government Investment in Care Work
# Business Investment in Care Work
# Public and Private Investment in Protecting the Environment
# Comparative Investment Data

=History=
In the prehistory of humans, partnership used to be the norm. In both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, there are examples of matriarchal societies preceding patriarchies. British archaeologist James Mellaart, for example, reported a Neolithic site with many female images and no signs of destructive warfare for almost 1000 years. For thousands of years, people lived in these peaceful partnership societies, until warlike nomadic tribes disrupted the balance with their dominator cultures (5000 B.C.E., 3000 B.C.E.).

===The Paleolithic Age (3 million to 10,000 B.C.E.)===
Cave art, dating back over 30,000 years from the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, Stone Age, does not express any form of domination culture. Instead of images celebrating the power to take life, what we instead see are images celebrating the life giving and nurturing powers of nature, often as incarnated in the body of woman.

===The Neolithic Age (10,000 to 3000 B.C.E.)===
In the Neolithic or first agrarian cultures going back about 10,000 years, we first see a profusion of female images, and, reflecting a massive cultural shift, their disappearance toward its end. We see the first signs of domination culture stemming from nomadic culture around 5000 B.C.E., and becoming widespread by 3000 B.C.E.

===The Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.)===
The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete was a high civilization: a technologically, artistically, economically, and socially developed, centralized society, that flourished under a partnership-oriented system, with art, governance, economy and architecture that revered women and nature. It was one of the last remaining large-scale partnership civilizations in the world until domination culture replaced it.

=Economy Policy=
The economic policy goal of Parnerism is in developing the human capabilities of each person, not the level of monetary income per person.

=Resources=

'''Education programs in Regenerative Development'''
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS|Partnerism in Regeneration]]

'''Websites'''
* [http://partnerism.org partnerism.org] - Information site dedicated to activating a mainstream movement to build Partnership-based economic and social systems
* [http://centerforpartnership.org centerforpartnership.org] - Center for Partnership Systems website
* [http://learnpartnership.org learnpartnership.org] - Learning center for partnerism with a focus on courses

'''Foundational Books'''
* [https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Riane Eisler, 1988)] - The most comprehensive explanation of how and why partnership and domination societies were conceptualized and normalized. Its main message is that our social norms frame our reality, but norms can be evolved towards peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Our-Humanity-Domination-Partnership/dp/0190935723 Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination & Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Riane Eisler, 2019)]
* [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Riane Eisler, 2008)]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Way-Learning-Practical-Companion/dp/0062502905 The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") (Riane Eisler, 1990)] - Provides group exercises and activities as well as case studies of groups from different sectors learning about and implementing partnerism.

'''Additional Books'''
* Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body – New Paths to Power and Love - An intensive read on politics and inequality throughout written history, ex. institutionalized patriarchy.
* Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future - Research and insight in the neuroscience behind the two social systems of partnership and domination respectively and how they shape our internal and external realities. It addresses the importance of childhood experiences and learning, and our true human instincts of caring and compassion.

'''Documents'''

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aV8Fn6N0UoJHUD_NpzSbjzsELQtXFe_c Partnership Systems & Partnerism One Page] - An informative infographic that highlights all the main components and building blocks of partnerism.
* [https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/turn-20-everyday-phrases-from-negative-to-positive How to Turn 20 Everyday Phrases From Negative to Positive] - Shifting towards partnership/positive rhetoric and dismantling underlying violent/domination norms]

=Partnerism Media Kit=
[https://centerforpartnership.org/media-kit/ Link to Partnerism Media Kit pdf] by Center for Partnership Systems<br>
[[File:Partnerismmediakit1.jpg]]
[[File:Partnerismmediakit2.jpg]]

=Defining caring=
Caring, caregiving in Partnerism are defined as activities guided by a caring orientation over a longer time horizon. It not only fulfills human needs and aspirations, it also offers a wholly different approach to business and government policies that are both financially and socially profitable. A caring orientation includes giving visibility and value to:
* the work of caring for children, the sick, and the elderly in households
* caring work in the market economy, such as child care, teaching, nursing, and caring for people in retirement homes
* being ethical in business and government
* the civic labor of building healthy communities, the social justice labor of progressive social movements, and the environmental labor needed to preserve a healthy natural environment for ourselves and future generations.
A caring orientation is also distinguished by a longer time horizon, taking into account short-term and long-term considerations.
<br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br><br>

Partnerism

2022-11-11T18:35:41Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Partnerism.jpg|thumb]]'''Partnerism''' is an economic and cultural system based on nature and [[Partnerism#Defining_caring|caring]], as an alternative to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture domination culture], with an emphasis on a social system based on equality of women and men. Unlike Capitalism and Socialism, Partnerism recognizes the economic value of care and adequately rewards it in both the market and non-market sectors. Partnerism was first coined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler Riane Eisler] in [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations] and most internationally recognized in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade The Chalice and the Blade].

=Domination/Partnership Social Scale=

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination/Partnership Social Scale
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|In groups and out groups
|Everyone matters
|-
|Hierarchies of domination
|Hierarchies of actualization
|-
|Power maintained by force and fear
|Increase in liberty and expression
|-
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Inequality]
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Equality]: gender, race, etc
|-
|Ignores economic value of caring
|Care is valued economically
|-
|Violence and abuse
|Human flourishing and creativity
|}

=Hierarchies of Actualization=
A Partnership System is not a completely flat structure. We can’t just do away with hierarchies. Sometimes someone has to make a decision. Riane Eisler coined the term “Hierarchies of Actualization” to describe how hierarchies are constructed in Partnership Systems. In Hierarchies of Actualization, parents, managers, leaders and others in positions of authority seek to uplift and empower others.
In hierarchies of domination, rigid rankings are used to control others and keep people deemed inferior “in their place".

=The Four Cornerstones=
Riane Eisler’s research reveals four interactive levers for shifting away from domination systems toward Partnership Systems. Eisler’s scholarship directs us to focus our efforts in these four areas as foundational to build Partnership Systems. In a hierarchy of domination, accountability, mutual respect/ mutual benefitonly flow from the bottom up. In a Hierarchy of Actualization, they flow both ways. And that’s a huge difference.

===Family & Childhood relations===
'''Partnerism values the work of caring.'''<br>
Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, starting at birth, determines how our brains develop and therefore how we think, feel, and act. Infants and children absorb partnership or domination worldview's from parents' relationships with each other and from their relationships with parents and siblings, long before they go to school and long before critical mental faculties are developed.

===Gender relations===
'''Partnerism values all people, regardless of gender or other differences.'''</br>
How a society constructs gender roles and relations not only affects everyone’s individual life options; it affects families, education, religion, politics, and economics. When people learn to equate the physical differences between male and female with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving, they internalize a template that can automatically be applied elsewhere: race, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, etc..

===Economic relations===
'''Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.'''<br>
The gap between haves and have-nots has been growing among and within nations. This is a crisis. Moving to a more robust, sustainable and humane economics is not only vital for human and environmental reasons, but for purely economic ones. A caring economics of Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.

===Narrative/Language===
'''Partnerism supports empathetic, mutually beneficial, caring relationships.'''<br>
We need the language of partnership systems to transcend old categories and to describe beneficial social and economic systems. A caring democracy requires accurate narratives about 'human nature'. This will require a concerted effort in which the arts, music, literature, and education are informed and inspired by science and caring values.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination vs Partnerism Languaging
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|We are shooting for a Thursday deadline
|Our intention is to complete this project by Thursday
|-
|We are aiming to finish
|Our plan is to finish
|-
|Let's target this demographic
|Let's focus on this demographic
|-
|I dodged a bullet
|Things worked out for the best
|-
|Deadline
|Deliverables, due date, tasks done, life cycle
|-
|Fight injustice
|Heal injustice
|-
|Killing time
|Filling time
|-
|Mankind
|Humankind
|-
|Kill two birds with one stone
|Feed two birds with one scone
|-
|I really killed it/crushed it/nailed it
|I really brought it to life
|-
|I will what that into shape
|I will concentrate on this project
|-
|Take a stab at
|Attempt, try
|-
|Things went South
|Things went downhill from there
|-
|Spearhead an effort
|Initiate an effort
|-
|Man the office
|Staff the office
|-
|Command central
|Action hub
|-
|Dumbing down
|Simplifying, humanizing
|}

=New Economic Map=
The Partnerism economic model includes the full spectrum of economic relations, from how humans relate to our natural habitat. This requires a complete and accurate map that includes all economic sectors with the household as the core inner sector. In the dominator economy, the foundational economic sectors, household, unpaid community, and natural are N/A (not applicable), omitted.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|New Economic Map
|-
|
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|'''Examples'''
|-
|Household economy
|N/A
|Core sector
|Caring, caregiving
|-
|Unpaid community economy
|N/A
|Second sector
|Volunteering, barter, community currency
|-
|Market economy
|Core sector
|Third sector
|The conventional fiat economy
|-
|Illegal economy
|Second sector
|Fourth sector
|Drug/sex/arms trade
|-
|Government economy
|Third sector
|Fifth sector
|Policies/laws/rules governing market economy; public services
|-
|Natural economy
|N/A
|Sixth sector
|Natural environment
|}

=Restructuring Economic Systems=
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Restructuring Economic Systems
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|'''Ignore''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|'''Recognize''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|-
|Rules, policies, and practices '''inhibit''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|Rules, policies, and practices '''support''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|-
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''control and domination.'''
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''caring and partnership.'''
|-
|Measurements of economic productivity include activities that harm people and nature, and '''fail to include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|Measurements of economic productivity exclude activities that harm people and nature, and '''include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|-
|Economic structures are designed to support concentration of assets and power at the top, with little accountability to those on bottom.
|Economic structures are participatory and equitable, designed to support mutual accountability and benefit.
|-
|Human needs and capacities are often exploited, and nature is depleted and polluted.
|Human needs and capacities are nurtured, and our natural habitat is conserved.
|-
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''inadequate'''.
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''a top priority'''.
|-
|Is not sustainable at our level of technology in an inextricably interconnected world.
|Can help us meet the social, economic, and ecological challenges we face.
|}

=Social Wealth Economic Indicators=
SWEIs inform us that environmental work and care work, which is the work of caring for others, such as children or the sick and disabled or the elderly, yields significant economic value. Learn more [https://centerforpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SWEI-Executive-Summary-and-Core-Indicators-2.pdf here].

==Human Capacity Indicators==
Human Capacity Indicators (HCIs) measure the output dimension, i.e., the degree of human capacity development, where human capacity is understood to refer to the capacities that people learn to utilize not only in service of their own advancement but also in collaboration with others for the advancement of the society and economy in which they live. They are divided into seven subcategories:
# Caregiving Measures
# Education Measures
# Health Measures
# Social Connectivity and Cohesion Measures
# Environmental Measures
# Social Equity Measures
# Entrepreneurship and Innovation Measures

==Care Investment Indicators==
Care Investment Indicators (CIIs) measure inputs into the creation of human capacity, i.e., the extent of government and business support for care work, in the form of budgetary allocations, family-friendly laws and workplace practices, and so on. They are divided into four subcategories:
# Government Investment in Care Work
# Business Investment in Care Work
# Public and Private Investment in Protecting the Environment
# Comparative Investment Data

=History=
In the prehistory of humans, partnership used to be the norm. In both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, there are examples of matriarchal societies preceding patriarchies. British archaeologist James Mellaart, for example, reported a Neolithic site with many female images and no signs of destructive warfare for almost 1000 years. For thousands of years, people lived in these peaceful partnership societies, until warlike nomadic tribes disrupted the balance with their dominator cultures (5000 B.C.E., 3000 B.C.E.).

===The Paleolithic Age (3 million to 10,000 B.C.E.)===
Cave art, dating back over 30,000 years from the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, Stone Age, does not express any form of domination culture. Instead of images celebrating the power to take life, what we instead see are images celebrating the life giving and nurturing powers of nature, often as incarnated in the body of woman.

===The Neolithic Age (10,000 to 3000 B.C.E.)===
In the Neolithic or first agrarian cultures going back about 10,000 years, we first see a profusion of female images, and, reflecting a massive cultural shift, their disappearance toward its end. We see the first signs of domination culture stemming from nomadic culture around 5000 B.C.E., and becoming widespread by 3000 B.C.E.

===The Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.)===
The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete was a high civilization: a technologically, artistically, economically, and socially developed, centralized society, that flourished under a partnership-oriented system, with art, governance, economy and architecture that revered women and nature. It was one of the last remaining large-scale partnership civilizations in the world until domination culture replaced it.

=Economy Policy=
The economic policy goal of Parnerism is in developing the human capabilities of each person, not the level of monetary income per person.

=Resources=

'''Education programs in Regenerative Development'''
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS|Partnerism in Regeneration]]

'''Websites'''
* [http://partnerism.org partnerism.org] - Information site dedicated to activating a mainstream movement to build Partnership-based economic and social systems
* [http://centerforpartnership.org centerforpartnership.org] - Center for Partnership Systems website
* [http://learnpartnership.org learnpartnership.org] - Learning center for partnerism with a focus on courses

'''Foundational Books'''
* [https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Riane Eisler, 1988)] - The most comprehensive explanation of how and why partnership and domination societies were conceptualized and normalized. Its main message is that our social norms frame our reality, but norms can be evolved towards peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Our-Humanity-Domination-Partnership/dp/0190935723 Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination & Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Riane Eisler, 2019)]
* [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Riane Eisler, 2008)]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Way-Learning-Practical-Companion/dp/0062502905 The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") (Riane Eisler, 1990)] - Provides group exercises and activities as well as case studies of groups from different sectors learning about and implementing partnerism.

'''Additional Books'''
* Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body – New Paths to Power and Love - An intensive read on politics and inequality throughout written history, ex. institutionalized patriarchy.
* Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future - Research and insight in the neuroscience behind the two social systems of partnership and domination respectively and how they shape our internal and external realities. It addresses the importance of childhood experiences and learning, and our true human instincts of caring and compassion.

'''Documents'''

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aV8Fn6N0UoJHUD_NpzSbjzsELQtXFe_c Partnership Systems & Partnerism One Page] - An informative infographic that highlights all the main components and building blocks of partnerism.
* [https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/turn-20-everyday-phrases-from-negative-to-positive How to Turn 20 Everyday Phrases From Negative to Positive] - Shifting towards partnership/positive rhetoric and dismantling underlying violent/domination norms]

=Partnerism Media Kit=
[https://centerforpartnership.org/media-kit/ Link to Partnerism Media Kit pdf] by Center for Partnership Systems<br>
[[File:Partnerismmediakit1.jpg]]
[[File:Partnerismmediakit2.jpg]]

=Defining caring=
Caring, caregiving in Partnerism are defined as activities guided by a caring orientation over a longer time horizon. It not only fulfills human needs and aspirations, it also offers a wholly different approach to business and government policies that are both financially and socially profitable. A caring orientation includes giving visibility and value to:
* the work of caring for children, the sick, and the elderly in households
* caring work in the market economy, such as child care, teaching, nursing, and caring for people in retirement homes
* being ethical in business and government
* the civic labor of building healthy communities, the social justice labor of progressive social movements, and the environmental labor needed to preserve a healthy natural environment for ourselves and future generations.
A caring orientation is also distinguished by a longer time horizon, taking into account short-term and long-term considerations.
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Partnerism

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[[File:Partnerism.jpg|thumb]]'''Partnerism''' is an economic and cultural system based on nature and [[Partnerism#Defining_caring|caring]], with an emphasis on a social system based on equality of women and men. It is an alternative to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominator_culture domination culture], a social system dominated by men. Unlike Capitalism and Socialism, Partnerism recognizes the economic value of care and adequately rewards it in both the market and non-market sectors. Partnerism was first coined by [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riane_Eisler Riane Eisler] in [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations] and most internationally recognized in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Chalice_and_the_Blade The Chalice and the Blade].

=Domination/Partnership Social Scale=

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination/Partnership Social Scale
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|In groups and out groups
|Everyone matters
|-
|Hierarchies of domination
|Hierarchies of actualization
|-
|Power maintained by force and fear
|Increase in liberty and expression
|-
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Inequality]
|[https://www.equalityhumanrights.com/en/secondary-education-resources/useful-information/understanding-equality Equality]: gender, race, etc
|-
|Ignores economic value of caring
|Care is valued economically
|-
|Violence and abuse
|Human flourishing and creativity
|}

=Hierarchies of Actualization=
A Partnership System is not a completely flat structure. We can’t just do away with hierarchies. Sometimes someone has to make a decision. Riane Eisler coined the term “Hierarchies of Actualization” to describe how hierarchies are constructed in Partnership Systems. In Hierarchies of Actualization, parents, managers, leaders and others in positions of authority seek to uplift and empower others.
In hierarchies of domination, rigid rankings are used to control others and keep people deemed inferior “in their place".

=The Four Cornerstones=
Riane Eisler’s research reveals four interactive levers for shifting away from domination systems toward Partnership Systems. Eisler’s scholarship directs us to focus our efforts in these four areas as foundational to build Partnership Systems. In a hierarchy of domination, accountability, mutual respect/ mutual benefitonly flow from the bottom up. In a Hierarchy of Actualization, they flow both ways. And that’s a huge difference.

===Family & Childhood relations===
'''Partnerism values the work of caring.'''<br>
Neuroscience shows that what children experience and observe, starting at birth, determines how our brains develop and therefore how we think, feel, and act. Infants and children absorb partnership or domination worldview's from parents' relationships with each other and from their relationships with parents and siblings, long before they go to school and long before critical mental faculties are developed.

===Gender relations===
'''Partnerism values all people, regardless of gender or other differences.'''</br>
How a society constructs gender roles and relations not only affects everyone’s individual life options; it affects families, education, religion, politics, and economics. When people learn to equate the physical differences between male and female with superiority or inferiority, dominating or being dominated, being served or serving, they internalize a template that can automatically be applied elsewhere: race, religion, ethnic, sexual orientation, etc..

===Economic relations===
'''Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.'''<br>
The gap between haves and have-nots has been growing among and within nations. This is a crisis. Moving to a more robust, sustainable and humane economics is not only vital for human and environmental reasons, but for purely economic ones. A caring economics of Partnerism recognizes that the real wealth of our world consists of the contributions of people and of nature.

===Narrative/Language===
'''Partnerism supports empathetic, mutually beneficial, caring relationships.'''<br>
We need the language of partnership systems to transcend old categories and to describe beneficial social and economic systems. A caring democracy requires accurate narratives about 'human nature'. This will require a concerted effort in which the arts, music, literature, and education are informed and inspired by science and caring values.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Domination vs Partnerism Languaging
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|We are shooting for a Thursday deadline
|Our intention is to complete this project by Thursday
|-
|We are aiming to finish
|Our plan is to finish
|-
|Let's target this demographic
|Let's focus on this demographic
|-
|I dodged a bullet
|Things worked out for the best
|-
|Deadline
|Deliverables, due date, tasks done, life cycle
|-
|Fight injustice
|Heal injustice
|-
|Killing time
|Filling time
|-
|Mankind
|Humankind
|-
|Kill two birds with one stone
|Feed two birds with one scone
|-
|I really killed it/crushed it/nailed it
|I really brought it to life
|-
|I will what that into shape
|I will concentrate on this project
|-
|Take a stab at
|Attempt, try
|-
|Things went South
|Things went downhill from there
|-
|Spearhead an effort
|Initiate an effort
|-
|Man the office
|Staff the office
|-
|Command central
|Action hub
|-
|Dumbing down
|Simplifying, humanizing
|}

=New Economic Map=
The Partnerism economic model includes the full spectrum of economic relations, from how humans relate to our natural habitat. This requires a complete and accurate map that includes all economic sectors with the household as the core inner sector. In the dominator economy, the foundational economic sectors, household, unpaid community, and natural are N/A (not applicable), omitted.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|New Economic Map
|-
|
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|'''Examples'''
|-
|Household economy
|N/A
|Core sector
|Caring, caregiving
|-
|Unpaid community economy
|N/A
|Second sector
|Volunteering, barter, community currency
|-
|Market economy
|Core sector
|Third sector
|The conventional fiat economy
|-
|Illegal economy
|Second sector
|Fourth sector
|Drug/sex/arms trade
|-
|Government economy
|Third sector
|Fifth sector
|Policies/laws/rules governing market economy; public services
|-
|Natural economy
|N/A
|Sixth sector
|Natural environment
|}

=Restructuring Economic Systems=
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Restructuring Economic Systems
|-
|'''Domination'''
|'''Partnership'''
|-
|'''Ignore''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|'''Recognize''' contributions of the life-sustaining activities of households, communities, and nature.
|-
|Rules, policies, and practices '''inhibit''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|Rules, policies, and practices '''support''' human development, creativity, equitable relations, mutual responsibility, and concern for nature and future generations.
|-
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''control and domination.'''
|Technological applications are driven by an ethos of '''caring and partnership.'''
|-
|Measurements of economic productivity include activities that harm people and nature, and '''fail to include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|Measurements of economic productivity exclude activities that harm people and nature, and '''include''' essential non-market life-supporting activities.
|-
|Economic structures are designed to support concentration of assets and power at the top, with little accountability to those on bottom.
|Economic structures are participatory and equitable, designed to support mutual accountability and benefit.
|-
|Human needs and capacities are often exploited, and nature is depleted and polluted.
|Human needs and capacities are nurtured, and our natural habitat is conserved.
|-
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''inadequate'''.
|Investment in developing the high-quality human capital needed for the postindustrial age is '''a top priority'''.
|-
|Is not sustainable at our level of technology in an inextricably interconnected world.
|Can help us meet the social, economic, and ecological challenges we face.
|}

=Social Wealth Economic Indicators=
SWEIs inform us that environmental work and care work, which is the work of caring for others, such as children or the sick and disabled or the elderly, yields significant economic value. Learn more [https://centerforpartnership.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/SWEI-Executive-Summary-and-Core-Indicators-2.pdf here].

==Human Capacity Indicators==
Human Capacity Indicators (HCIs) measure the output dimension, i.e., the degree of human capacity development, where human capacity is understood to refer to the capacities that people learn to utilize not only in service of their own advancement but also in collaboration with others for the advancement of the society and economy in which they live. They are divided into seven subcategories:
# Caregiving Measures
# Education Measures
# Health Measures
# Social Connectivity and Cohesion Measures
# Environmental Measures
# Social Equity Measures
# Entrepreneurship and Innovation Measures

==Care Investment Indicators==
Care Investment Indicators (CIIs) measure inputs into the creation of human capacity, i.e., the extent of government and business support for care work, in the form of budgetary allocations, family-friendly laws and workplace practices, and so on. They are divided into four subcategories:
# Government Investment in Care Work
# Business Investment in Care Work
# Public and Private Investment in Protecting the Environment
# Comparative Investment Data

=History=
In the prehistory of humans, partnership used to be the norm. In both the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods, there are examples of matriarchal societies preceding patriarchies. British archaeologist James Mellaart, for example, reported a Neolithic site with many female images and no signs of destructive warfare for almost 1000 years. For thousands of years, people lived in these peaceful partnership societies, until warlike nomadic tribes disrupted the balance with their dominator cultures (5000 B.C.E., 3000 B.C.E.).

===The Paleolithic Age (3 million to 10,000 B.C.E.)===
Cave art, dating back over 30,000 years from the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age, Stone Age, does not express any form of domination culture. Instead of images celebrating the power to take life, what we instead see are images celebrating the life giving and nurturing powers of nature, often as incarnated in the body of woman.

===The Neolithic Age (10,000 to 3000 B.C.E.)===
In the Neolithic or first agrarian cultures going back about 10,000 years, we first see a profusion of female images, and, reflecting a massive cultural shift, their disappearance toward its end. We see the first signs of domination culture stemming from nomadic culture around 5000 B.C.E., and becoming widespread by 3000 B.C.E.

===The Bronze Age (3000 B.C.E. to 1000 B.C.E.)===
The Minoan civilization on the Mediterranean island of Crete was a high civilization: a technologically, artistically, economically, and socially developed, centralized society, that flourished under a partnership-oriented system, with art, governance, economy and architecture that revered women and nature. It was one of the last remaining large-scale partnership civilizations in the world until domination culture replaced it.

=Economy Policy=
The economic policy goal of Parnerism is in developing the human capabilities of each person, not the level of monetary income per person.

=Resources=

'''Education programs in Regenerative Development'''
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS|Partnerism in Regeneration]]

'''Websites'''
* [http://partnerism.org partnerism.org] - Information site dedicated to activating a mainstream movement to build Partnership-based economic and social systems
* [http://centerforpartnership.org centerforpartnership.org] - Center for Partnership Systems website
* [http://learnpartnership.org learnpartnership.org] - Learning center for partnerism with a focus on courses

'''Foundational Books'''
* [https://www.amazon.com/Chalice-Blade-Our-History-Future/dp/0062502891 The Chalice & The Blade: Our History, Our Future (Riane Eisler, 1988)] - The most comprehensive explanation of how and why partnership and domination societies were conceptualized and normalized. Its main message is that our social norms frame our reality, but norms can be evolved towards peaceful and prosperous coexistence.
* [https://www.amazon.com/Nurturing-Our-Humanity-Domination-Partnership/dp/0190935723 Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination & Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future (Riane Eisler, 2019)]
* [https://www.amazon.fr/dp/B00F9FLBY0 The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Riane Eisler, 2008)]
* [https://www.amazon.com/Partnership-Way-Learning-Practical-Companion/dp/0062502905 The Partnership Way: New Tools for Living and Learning, Healing Our Families, and Our World (A Practical Companion for "the Chalice and the Blade") (Riane Eisler, 1990)] - Provides group exercises and activities as well as case studies of groups from different sectors learning about and implementing partnerism.

'''Additional Books'''
* Sacred Pleasure: Sex, Myth, and the Politics of the Body – New Paths to Power and Love - An intensive read on politics and inequality throughout written history, ex. institutionalized patriarchy.
* Nurturing Our Humanity: How Domination and Partnership Shape Our Brains, Lives, and Future - Research and insight in the neuroscience behind the two social systems of partnership and domination respectively and how they shape our internal and external realities. It addresses the importance of childhood experiences and learning, and our true human instincts of caring and compassion.

'''Documents'''

* [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aV8Fn6N0UoJHUD_NpzSbjzsELQtXFe_c Partnership Systems & Partnerism One Page] - An informative infographic that highlights all the main components and building blocks of partnerism.
* [https://centerforpartnership.org/news-events/turn-20-everyday-phrases-from-negative-to-positive How to Turn 20 Everyday Phrases From Negative to Positive] - Shifting towards partnership/positive rhetoric and dismantling underlying violent/domination norms]

=Partnerism Media Kit=
[https://centerforpartnership.org/media-kit/ Link to Partnerism Media Kit pdf] by Center for Partnership Systems<br>
[[File:Partnerismmediakit1.jpg]]
[[File:Partnerismmediakit2.jpg]]

=Defining caring=
Caring, caregiving in Partnerism are defined as activities guided by a caring orientation over a longer time horizon. It not only fulfills human needs and aspirations, it also offers a wholly different approach to business and government policies that are both financially and socially profitable. A caring orientation includes giving visibility and value to:
* the work of caring for children, the sick, and the elderly in households
* caring work in the market economy, such as child care, teaching, nursing, and caring for people in retirement homes
* being ethical in business and government
* the civic labor of building healthy communities, the social justice labor of progressive social movements, and the environmental labor needed to preserve a healthy natural environment for ourselves and future generations.
A caring orientation is also distinguished by a longer time horizon, taking into account short-term and long-term considerations.
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Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies

2022-11-07T18:19:58Z

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A summary of Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies (Applying Theory U to Business, Society, and Self) by Otto Scharmer and Katrin Kaufer.

[[File:Theoryu.jpg|thumbnail|right|The Theory U process]]

=On the Surface: Symptoms of Death and Rebirth (Downloading)=
We move from the toppling of tyrants to an exploration of the deeper fault lines that keep generating the disruptive changes of our time. We also look at these disruptive events from the viewpoint of changemakers: In the face of disruption, what determines whether we end up in moments of madness or mindfulness?

==The Three Divides==
# The Ecological Divide
## Water
## Soil
## Climate
## Eco-Systems
# The Socioeconomic Divide
## Hunger
## Poverty
## Inequality
# The Spiritual-Cultural Divide
## Happiness and Well-Being
## Burning, Depression, Suicide

===Journaling Questions===
Take a journal (or blank piece of paper) and write your responses to the questions below. Spend no more than one to two minutes answering each question. Number your responses.
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is dying (in society, in your organization, in yourself)?
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is waiting to be born (in society, in your organization, in yourself)?
# Where have you experienced moments of disruption? And what did you notice about your own process of presencing or absencing?
# How do the ecological, socioeconomic, and spiritual-cultural divides show up in your personal experiences?

===Circle Conversation===
Assemble a circle of five to seven individuals and hold a first meeting to share the context that each person brings to the circle. Respond to the following:
# Introduce your personal story with one or two formative experiences that shaped the person you are.
# Where do you experience your ecosystem that is ending/dying, and where do you experience your ecosystem that is beginning/wanting to be born?
# What do you consider to be the root causes and issues of our current crisis and the three divides?
# What do you personally feel is going to happen over the next year? The next one to five years?
# What would you like to do right now in order to make a difference going forward?
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=Structure: Systemic Disconnects (Seeing)=
What are the structural issues that lead us to reenact patterns of the past and not connect to what is emerging? What is the underlying blind spot that, if illuminated, could help us to see the hidden structures below the waterline?

==Structural Disconnects and System Limits==
The table below lays out the eight issue areas or visible symptoms of problems in our current system. Column 1 describes the symptom broadly; column 2 explains the structural disconnect that gives rise to the issue in row 1; and column 3 spells out the limits that the whole system is hitting. Addressing the root causes of these structural disconnects is like touching eight acupuncture points of economic and social transformation. If addressed as a set, these acupuncture points hold the possibility for evolving our institutions in ways that bridge the three divides.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|Structural Disconnects and System Limits
|-
|
|'''Ecological issue'''
|'''Income issue'''
|'''Financial issue'''
|'''Technology issue'''
|'''Leadership issue'''
|'''Consumerism issue'''
|'''Governance issue'''
|'''Ownership issue'''
|-
|Surface Symptoms
|1.5 planet footprint
|Top 1 percent own more than bottom 90 percent
|US$1.5 quadrilion speculation bubble
|Quick technological fix syndrome
|Collectively creating results that nobody wants
|Burnout, depression, consumerism without well-being
|Inability to face challenges at sale of whole system
|Overuse of scarce resources; tragedy of the commons
|-
|Structural Disconnect
|Decoupling of unlimited growth and finite resources
|Decoupling of Haves and Have Nots, of wealth and basic need
|Decoupling of financial economy and real economy
|Decoupling of technological solutions and societal needs
|Decoupling of old leadership tools and new challenges
|Decoupling of GDP and well-being
|Decoupling of parts and whole
|Decoupling of current ownership forms and best societal use
|-
|Systemic Limit
|Limits to growth → cultivating finite resources
|Limits to inequality → embodying human rights
|Limits to speculation → organizing around the real economy
|Limits to symptom fixes → focusing on sustainable solutions
|Limits to leadership → direct, distributed, dialogic self-governance
|Limits to consumerism → attending to inner and relational sources of happiness and well-being
|Limits to competition → redrawing boundaries of competition and cooperation
|Limits to state and private property → property rights for the commons
|}

Common characteristics of Structural Disconnects and System Limits:
# embody systemic structures that are designed not to learn;
# are unaware of externalities;
# facilitate money flowing the wrong way;
# allow special-interest groups to rig the system to the disadvantage of the whole

==The Challenge-Response Model of Economic Evolution==
Societal progress happens as an interplay of challenge and response: Structural change happens when a society’s elite can no longer respond creatively to major social challenges, and old social formations are therefore replaced by new ones.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="7"|The Challenge-Response Model of Economic Evolution
|-
|
|'''Primary societal challenge'''
|'''Response: coordination mechanism'''
|'''Primary sector/players'''
|'''Primary source of power'''
|'''Dominant ideology'''
|'''Primary state of consciousness'''
|-
|Society 1.0: State-Driven, Mercantilism, Socialism
|Stability
|Commanding; hierarchy
|State/government
|Coercive (sticks)
|Mercantilism; socialism (state-centric thought)
|Traditional awareness
|-
|Society 2.0: Free-Market-Driven, Laissez-Faire
|Growth
|Competing: markets
|Capital/business: state/government
|Remunerative (carrots)
|Neoliberal and neoclassic (market-centric thought)
|Ego-system awareness
|-
|Society 3.0: Stakeholder-Driven, Social-Market Economy
|Negative domestic externalities
|Negotiation: stakeholder dialogue
|Civil society/NGOs; capital/business; state/government
|Normative (values)
|Social democratic or progressive thought
|Stakeholder awareness
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Society 4.0: Eco-System Driven, Co-Creative Economy
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Global disruptive externalities, resilience
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Presencing: awareness-based collective action (ABC)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cross-sector co-creation; civil society/NGOs; capital/business; state/government
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Awareness: actions that arise from seeing the emerging whole
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system-centric thought
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system awareness
|}

===Journaling Questions===
Take a journal (or blank piece of paper) and reflect on how the systemic disconnects show up in your world by writing your responses to the questions below.
# Where does your food come from?
# What roles does material consumption play in your life?
# What makes you happy?
# What is your relationship to money?
# Given the four stages of economic development discussed in this chapter, how do you see the past, present, and future of your own community and country?

===Circle Conversation===
Form a circle of five to seven individuals and discuss the organizational or professional context that each person brings to the circle. Ask the following questions (or some variation):
# Introduce your own organization by relating one or two formative experiences that shaped its culture as it is today.
# Where does your organization experience a world that is ending/dying, and where does it experience a world that is beginning/wanting to be born?
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=Transforming Thought: The Matrix of Economic Evolution (Sensing)=
Exploring the abyss between the world of new leadership challenges, and the world of old economic and management tools.

==The Matrix of Economic Evolution==
The Matrix of Economic Evolution maps both the journey of our economic development and the possible development space going forward. Note the boldface text in each column of the matrix, indicating the critical factor in each developmental stage. In the 0.0 stage, “Mother Nature” is is the critical factor for the production function. Then, at stage 1.0, dependent labor (serfdom and slavery) became the critical developmental factor. The production function changes from one factor (nature) to two (nature, labor). In stage 2.0, industrial capital becomes the critical developmental factor, allowing new players in the market economy to be productive (nature, labor, capital). In stage 3.0, technology emerges as a critical factor, and with that the factors of production evolve to four (nature, labor, capital, technology). And finally, in the currently emerging stage 4.0, all of the factors may turn out to be bottlenecks, or critical factors, in the economy.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|The Matrix of Economic Evolution
|-
|'''Stage'''
|'''Nature'''
|'''Labor'''
|'''Capital'''
|'''Technology'''
|'''Leadership'''
|'''Consumption'''
|'''Coordination'''
|'''Ownership'''
|-
|0.0: Communal: Premodern Awareness
|'''Mother Nature
|Self-sufficiency
|Natural capital
|Indigenous wisdom
|Community
|Survival
|Community
|Communal
|-
|1.0: State-Centric: Mercantilism, State Capitalism; Traditional Awareness
|'''Resource
|'''Serfdom, slavery
|Human capital
|Tools: Agricultural Revolution
|Authoritarian (sticks)
|Traditional (needs-driven)
|Hierarchy and control
|State
|-
|2.0: Free Market; Laissez-Faire; Ego-Centric Awareness
|'''Commodity (land, raw materials)
|'''Labor (commodity)
|'''Industrial capital
|Machines: first Industrial Revolution (coal, steam, railway)
|Incentives (carrots)
|Consumerism: mass consumption
|Markets and competition
|Private: exchange of private ownership in markets
|-
|3.0: Social Market: Regulated; Stakeholder-Centric Awareness
|'''Regulated commodity
|'''Labor (regulated commodity)
|'''Financial capital (externality-blind)
|'''System-centric automation: second Industrial Revolution (oil, combustion engine, chemicals)
|Participative (norms)
|Selectively conscious consumption
|Networks and negotiation
|Mixed (public-private)
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0: Co-Creative: Distributed; Direct; Dialogic; Eco-Centric Awareness
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system and commons
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Social and business entrepreneurship
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cultural creative capital (externality-aware)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Human-centric technologies: third Industrial Revolution (renewable energy and information technologies)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Co-creative (collective presence)
|<span style="color:#008000">'''CCC: collaborative conscious consumption
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: awareness-based collective action
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Shared access to services and common resources
|}

==The Eight Key Factors: In Search of 4.0==
===Nature: Relinking Economy with Nature===
Propositions
* All economic activity arises from and returns to nature
* Exposing Commodity Fiction
* Biomimicry
* Closed-Loop Designs

Examples
* Slow Food movement
* Community-supported agriculture (CSA)
* Local food
* Local living economies
* Sustainable sourcing practices (biodynamic/organic farming)

===Labor: Relinking Work (Jobs) with Work (Purpose)===
Propositions
* Expose the discourse of denial
* Debunk the myth of growth
* Debunk the myth of money
* Relinking work and entrepreneurship

Examples
* BALLE

===Capital: Relinking Financial with Real Capital===
Propositions
* Understand that the financial system is too efficient
* Understand that money is not capital
* Understand that money is not a commodity
* Understand that money does not equal money

Examples
* GLS Bank and Triodos Bank
* BRAC Bank
* Complementary Currencies

===Technology: Relinking Technology with Collective Creativity===
Propositions
* Debunk the liberation myth
* Debunk the technology-fix myth
* Relink R&D investments with pressing societal needs
* Lead the third Industrial Revolution

Examples
* Wikipedia
* Linux

===Leadership: Relinking Leadership with the Emerging Future===
Propositions
* Shift leadership from ego-system awareness to eco-system awareness
* Debunk three leadership myths:
** The leader is the guy at the top (vs many to everyone)
** Leadership is about individuals (vs the whole system)
** Leadership is about creating and communicating a vision (vs listening)
* Co-initating, co-sensing, co-inspiring, co-creating, co-evolving

Examples
* Collective sensing and prototyping

===Consumption: Relinking the Economy with Well-Being===
Propositions
* Debunk Myth 1: Production and consumption are separate
* Debunk Myth 2: Consumers are separate from one another
* Debunk Myth 3: Material consumption creates well-being
* A model of communication that creates missing links between the different actors in an economy.

===Coordination: Relinking the Parts with the Whole===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|How a Society Coordinates Itself
|-
|'''System Integration/Degree of Interiorizing the Whole
|'''Primacy of the Whole
|'''Primacy of the Parts
|-
|High
|4.0: ABC (Awareness-based Collective Action): head, heart and hand (intentional)
|3.0: Negotiation and dialogue: head, heart and hand (ad hoc)
|-
|Low
|1.0: Central planning: visible hand
|2.0: Markets and competition: invisible hand
|}

Propositions
* Debunk the myth of the antagonism of markets versus hierarchies
* The answer to 'either-or' is 'both-and'
* An economy is not a business
* ABC (Awareness-based Collective Action) closes the feedback loop between parts and whole

===Ownership: Relinking Ownership with the Best Societal Use===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|Title
|-
|'''Economy
|'''Property Rights
|'''Types of Goods
|'''Bundle of Rights and Responsibilities
|'''Institutionalization
|-
|0.0
|Open access
|Common pool resources: ocean fisheries, atmosphere (nonexcludable, rival)
|No property rights
|Communal ownership
|-
|1.0
|State property rights
|Public goods: national defense (nonexcludable, rival)
|Property rights assigned by state
|State ownership: four-year election cycles
|-
|2.0
|Private property rights
|Private goods: food, clothing, housing (excludable, rival)
|Private property rights can be exchange by market (access, use, management, exclusion, and right to sell)
|Private ownership: quarterly results
|-
|3.0
|Mixed (public-private) property rights
|Mixed goods (public-private): eco-system services (excludable, nonexcludable, rival)
|Mixed property rights that are managed and in part exchanged by markets (access, use, management, exclusion, and right to sell)
|Mixed-stakeholder ownership (organized internet groups)
|-
|4.0
|Commons-based property rights
|Common goods: fisheries, eco-system services (non-excludable and rival)
|Property rights are jointly controlled by trust-based co-owners, stakeholders, and trustees (access, use, management, exclusion, and shared cultivation)
|Shared eco-system ownership (trustees representing the whole system, including future generations)
|}

Propositions
* All ownership forms are socially constructed
* Debunk Myth 1: Only private property rights are efficient; other forms are not.
* Debunk Myth 2: There is no third form of ownership.
* Commons-Based Property Rights
* Shared Ownership

Examples
* Landshare, UK
* Mondragon Corporation, Spain

==Journaling Questions==
Use the table as a mini-version of the Matrix of Economic Evolution in order to assess your organization through the following five steps.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="9"|The Matrix of Economic Evolution
|-
|
|'''Nature'''
|'''Labor'''
|'''Capital'''
|'''Technology'''
|'''Leadership'''
|'''Consumption'''
|'''Coordination'''
|'''Ownership'''
|-
|1.0
|Resource
|Serfdom
|Human
|Tools
|Authoritarian
|Traditional
|Central planning
|State
|-
|2.0
|Commodity
|Commodity
|Industrial
|Machines
|Incentives
|Consumerism
|Markets and competition
|Private
|-
|3.0
|Regulated commodity
|Regulated commodity
|Financial
|System-centric automation
|Participative
|Selectively conscious consumption
|Networks and negotiation
|Mixed (public-private)
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system, commons
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Entrepreneurship
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Cultural, creative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Human-centric
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Co-creative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collaborative conscious consumption
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: Awareness-based collective action
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Commons: shared access
|}
# In each column, check one box (1.0, 2.0, 3.0, or 4.0) that best represents the currently dominant operating model in your ecosystem and context.
# Then draw a current reality line that links all the boxes that you checked.
# What would be the most appropriate operating model for the future work that needs to happen to address the big challenges of the next decade or two? In each row, check one box, this time using a different color.
# Now draw the emerging future line by connecting the second set of checked boxes with the second color.
# Compare both lines, the current reality line and the emerging future line. Do they differ, and if yes, where, and what does it mean?

==Circle Conversation==
# After completing the tasks above individually, have each member share with the group what the answers might mean going forward.
# What interesting prototypes can you think of for exploring 4.0 types of operating models in the context of your own work and life right now?
<br>

=Source: Connecting to Intention and Awareness (Presencing)=
Exploring the source level of social reality creation, the deepest level of the “current reality iceberg”, the level of intention and awareness, and connecting to the source of the future that is wanting to emerge.

===The Matrix of Social Evolution===
One of the core ideas of Theory U is that form follows attention or consciousness. We can change reality by changing the inner place from which we operate. The Matrix of Social Evolution spells out what this looks like for an individual (attending), a group (conversing), an institution (organizing), and a global system (coordinating). The table below shows how these different social fields (micro, meso, macro, mundo) transform according to the inner place — or the quality of awareness — from which we operate.

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|The Matrix of Social Evolution
|-
|'''Field: Structure of Attention'''
|'''Micro: Attending (Individual)'''
|'''Meso: Conversing (Group)'''
|'''Macro: Organizing (Institution)'''
|'''Mundo: Coordinating (Global System)'''
|-
|1.0 habitual awareness
|Listening 1: downloading habits of thought
|Downloading: speaking from conforming
|Centralized control: organizing around hierarchy
|Hierarchy: commanding
|-
|''Suspending''<br>2.0: ego-system awareness
|Listening 2: factual, open-minded
|Debate: speaking from differentiating
|Divisionalized: organizing around differentiation
|Market: competing
|-
|''Redirecting''<br>3.0 stakeholder awareness
|Listening 3: empathic, open-hearted
|Dialogue: speaking from inquiring others, self
|Distributed/networked: organizing around interest groups
|Negotiated dialogue: cooperating
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''''Letting Go''<br>4.0 eco-system awareness
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Listening 4: generative, open-presence
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collective creativity: speaking from what is moving through
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system: organizing around what emerges
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: Awareness-based collective action: co-creating
|}

==Journaling Questions==
Use the Matrix of Social Evolution table to assess your current situation by answering the following questions.
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="5"|The Matrix of Social Evolution
|-
|'''Awareness'''
|'''Micro: Listening'''
|'''Meso: Conversing'''
|'''Macro: Organizing'''
|'''Mundo: Coordinating'''
|-
|1.0 habitual
|Level 1: downloading
|Downloading
|Centralized control
|Central planning
|-
|2.0: ego-system awareness
|Level 2: factual
|Debate
|Divisionalized
|Markets and competition
|-
|3.0 stakeholder
|Level 3: empathic
|Dialogue
|Networked
|Negotiation and dialogue
|-
|<span style="color:#008000">'''4.0 eco-system
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Level 4: generative
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Collective creativity
|<span style="color:#008000">'''Eco-system
|<span style="color:#008000">'''ABC: seeing/acting from the whole
|}
# What percentage of your time do you spend on each level of listening? Write down the percentage.
# What percentage of your time do you spend on each level of conversing?
# What percentage of your time does your institution make you organize around centralized, divisionalized, networked, or eco-systemic structures?
# What percentage of your time do you spend on connecting to the whole through the mechanisms of hierarchy, competition, stakeholder negotiation, or ABC (shared awareness of the whole)?
# With a different-colored pen, indicate in the table what you would like the future to look like (using percentages).
# Compare the two sets of percentages, notice the gaps, and develop ideas for bridging them.

==Circle Conversation==
# After answering the six questions above individually, have each member of your circle share their insights, questions, and intentions in regard to their personal profile.
# What interesting small prototypes can you think of for exploring 4.0 types of operating that can move your profile from actual to desired?
<br>

=Leading the Personal Inversion: From Me to We (Crystalizing)=
Stepping into the field of the future starts with attending to the opening of an inner crack. Following that crack requires us to let go of the old and “let grow” something that we can sense, but that we cannot fully know before we see it emerge. This moment, which requires us to move although we cannot yet fully see the new, feels like jumping across an abyss. At the moment we leap, we have no idea whether we will make it across.

==The Three Conditions for self to Self, me to We==
# Bending the Beam of Observation - Enabling presencing between Levels 2, 3, 4 of listening.
# A Holding Space for Embracing the Shadow - The cultivation of a holding space allows a shift of the social field to happen, the mind and the heart to open.
# Going to the Edge of Letting Go - The willingness to go to the edge of the abyss, to let go, to lean into the unknown—and take the leap.

==Twelve Principles for self to Self, me to We==
# Practice, don't preach.
# Observe, observe, observe: Become a black belt observer.
# Connect to your intention as an instrument.
# When the crack opens up, stay with it - connect and act from the now.
# Follow your heart - Do what you love, love what you do.
# Always be in dialogue with the universe.
# Create a holding space of deep listening that supports your journey.
# Iterate, iterate, iterate.
# Notice the crack to the field of the future.
# Use different language with different stakeholders.
# If you want to change others (other stakeholders), you need to open to changing yourself first.
# Never give up. Never give up. You are not alone.

==Journaling Questions==
Take a journal and some quiet time to answer these sixteen questions. Spend about one to two minutes per question.
# What in your life and work is dying or ending, and what wants to be born?
# Who have been your “guardian angels,” the people who have helped you to realize your highest potential?
# Where, right now, do you feel the opening to a future possibility?
# What about your current work and/or personal life frustrates you the most?
# What are your most important sources of energy? What do you love?
# Watch yourself from above, as if from a helicopter. What are you trying to do at this stage of your professional and personal journey?
# Watch the journey of your community/organization/collective movement from above. What are you trying to do in the present stage of your collective journey?
# Given the above answers, what questions do you now need to ask yourself?
# Look at your current situation from the viewpoint of yourself as a young person at the beginning of your journey. What does that young person have to say to you?
# Imagine you could fast-forward to the very last moments of your life, when it is time for you to move on. Now look back on your life’s journey as a whole. What would you want to see at that moment? What footprint do you want to leave behind on this planet?
# From that future point of view, what advice would your future Self offer to your current self?
# Now return to the present and crystallize what it is that you want to create: your vision and intention for the next three to five years. What vision and intention do you have for yourself and your work? What are the core elements of the future that you want to create in your personal, professional, and social life? Describe the images and elements that occur to you. The more concrete, the better.
# What would you have to let go of in order to bring your vision into reality? What is the old stuff that must die? What “old skin” (behaviors, thought processes, etc.) do you need to shed?
# Over the next three months, if you were to prototype a microcosm of the intended future in which you could discover “the new” by doing something, what would that prototype look like?
# Who can help you make your highest future possibilities a reality? Who might be your core helpers and partners?
# If you were to take on the project of bringing your highest intention into reality, what practical first steps would you take over the next three days?

==Circle Conversation==
Invite each person in your group to share the most meaningful things that surfaced through this sixteen-step journaling experience. Listen deeply and go with the flow of the conversation.
<br>

=Leading the Relational Inverstion: From Ego to Eco (Prototyping)=

We need to learn how to see ourselves through the eyes of others and of the whole.

==Four Levels of Stakeholder Communication==
In the diagram below displaying the four levels of stakeholder communication in economic systems, the most common types of conversation are represented by the outermost ring. At the center are the rarest and most precious types of conversation, which offer a major acupuncture point for future change.

[[File:Four-levels-communication.jpg|600px]]

# Level 1: Unilateral, one-way downloading, and manipulating
# Level 2: Bilateral, two-way discussions, and exchange of viewpoints
# Level 3: Multilateral stakeholder dialogue: Seeing oneself through the eyes of another
# Level 4: Co-creative eco-system innovation: Blurring the boundary of ego and eco

==Five Types of Innovation Infrastructure==
# Infrastructures to co-initiate
# Infrastructures for co-sensing
# Infrastructures to co-inspire
# Infrastructures for prototyping, or exploring the future by doing
# Infrastructures to co-evolving

===Stakeholder Interview Questions===
Identify three to five really important stakeholders in your life and/or work. Invite each of them to a conversation in which you pose the following seven questions (modify the questions as needed for your particular situation):
# What are you seeking to accomplish in your work, and what is my contribution to that work?
# Can you give me an example of a time when my contribution has been helpful to you?
# Which criteria do you use to gauge whether or not my contribution to your work has been successful?
# Which two things, if changed in my arena of influence or responsibility within the next three to four months, would create the most value for you?
# Which issues have made it difficult for us to work together effectively in the past?
# What best possible future would you like to see in regard to our collaboration going forward?
# What might be a first practical next step that will move us onto that path of desired future possibility?

===Circle Conversation===
# Invite each person to share some key insights from the stakeholder interviews.
# Reflect on some emerging themes.
# Invite those who want to share a story of when they experienced of a shift in the social field, like the one in Berlin or the one that Beth Jandernoa shared in this chapter. Share a story of a time when you saw a social field shift from one state to another—what changes did you notice in the field in how people interact? What changes did you notice in yourself?
<br>

=Leading the Instituional Inversion: Toward Eco-System Economies (Performing)=
The next social revolution has to be an institutional one. A revolution that helps us to bend the beam of institutional attention all the way back to source — that is, to a place where the institutional system can see and renew itself.

==Stages of Economic Logic and Corporate Development==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="7"|Stages of Economic Logic and Corporate Development
|-
|'''Stage of Economic Development
|'''Coordination mechanism (power)
|'''Pivotal sector
|'''Dominant economic logic
|'''Purpose of business
|'''Company examples
|'''Stakeholder relationships
|-
|1.0: Centralized State Economy
|Hierarchy, regulation, control (sticks)
|First sector: public
|Economies of scope: vertical integration
|Control over entire value chain
|Old IBM
|Controlling
|-
|2.0: Free-Market Economy
|Market and competition (carrots)
|Second sector: private
|Economies of scale: horizontal integration
|Profit and shareholder value
|Intel, Microsoft
|Transactional
|-
|3.0: Social-Market Economy
|Networks and negotiations (norms)
|Third sector: social
|Economies of networks (and scope): circlar integration
|Eco-system domination
|Apple, Facebook, Google
|Empathic but dominating: no shared ownership
|-
|4.0: Co-Creative Eco-System Economy
|ABC: awareness-based collective action (presencing of the emerging whole)
|Fourth sector: cross-sector collaboration
|Economies of presencing: spiral integration
|Eco-system stewardship: co-creative relationships with self, other, nature, whole
|Emerging examples: Natura, BALLE, Alibaba
|Generative: co-sensing, presencing, and co-creating highest future potential
|}

==Shifting the center of gravity for economic and conversational action==
The path to the future, to Economy 4.0, requires a shift at the gravitational center of our economy from primarily 1.0 and 2.0 communications (the outer two spheres) to 3.0 and 4.0 conversations and relationships (the inner two spheres). This implies that we have to redesign the system of money so that speculation money (in the outer sphere) will naturally be redirected and turned into gift money (in the inner sphere) that helps to cultivate the creative commons at the core.<br>
[[File:Economic-field.jpg|600px]]

==Economy 4.0 Key Principles: A Cross-Sector Platform for Eco-System Economies==
# Openness: Leadership shifts from inside an organization to the surrounding sphere.
# Transparency: Information must be transparent, not secret.
# Sharing: Ownership of goods must be accessible and intelligently shared.
# Intention: Organizing revolves around common intention, not structures.
# Holding space: Co-creative communities require high-quality core groups and holding spaces.
# Conversation: Shift from levels 1 and 2 (toxic, transactional) to levels 3 and 4 (dialogic, co-creative).
# Awareness: Shift the primary mode of operating from ego-system to eco-system awareness.
# Commons: Identify, protect, and cultivate the commons as base of the whole eco-system.
# Playfulness: Create a culture that values playfulness, entrepreneur-ship, and co-creation.
# Diversity and symbiosis: These are the twin principles that allow eco-systems to thrive.

==Journaling Questions==
# How can you shift your conversational relationships from levels 1 and 2 to levels 3 and 4—that is, from downloading and debate to dialogue and collective creativity? Be specific. Name one or two examples.
# Consider [[Theory_U:_Leading_from_the_Emerging_Future#Shifting_the_center_of_gravity_for_economic_and_conversational_action|this chart of the economic and conversational field]]. How could you and your organization shift your economic and financial relationships from the outer to the inner spheres—that is, from speculation and consumption to entrepreneurial initiative and to cultivating the creative commons in your current context and community? Name one or two examples. Where are you contributing to the commons? Where do you take or enable entrepreneurial initiative?
# How do the first two questions relate to each other? Be specific. Think about them in the context of your examples.
# How can you keep cultivating your own sources of capital—that is, your own sources of creativity?
# Consider [[Theory_U:_Leading_from_the_Emerging_Future#Stages_of_Economic_Logic_and_Corporate_Development|the Stages of Economic Logic and Corporate Development]]. What would your company or organization look like if it chose to operate as a 4.0 co-creative eco-system venture? Use the above list of ten key principles as input for developing concrete images and ideas.
# What small prototype could you create that would allow you to explore your most interesting idea for a possible 4.0 venture?

==Circle Conversation==
Download the [https://www.presencing.org/files/tools/PI_Tool_CaseClinic.pdf Theory U case clinic tool]. It’s a great process that takes a small group through a highly co-creative seven-step U-based process in seventy minutes. Each session focuses on one case-giver. Start with just one session and case-giver and do additional sessions in the upcoming meetings of your group.

<br>

=Leading from the Emerging Future: Now=

Applying these 4.0 principles to your own life, close to home, and to the emerging journey and movement we all participate in on earth.

The U process of learning from the emerging future follows three movements:
# Observe, observe
# Retreat and reflect: allow the inner knowing to emerge
# Act in an instant

==Closing the Feedback Loop of Matter and Mind: Economy 4.0==
The source is, from a systems view, where the feedback loop between mind and matter closes in the now, both individually and collectively. We have called these “closing-in” points or acupuncture points. This is how it happens for each of the eight acupuncture points:
# '''Nature''': Close the feedback loop of production, consumption, reuse, and recycling (through “earth-to-earth” or closed-loop design).
# '''Labor''': Close the feedback loop from work (jobs) to Work (passion) by building new entrepreneurship infrastructures that ignite the connection between self and Self.
# '''Capital''': Close the feedback loop in the flow of capital by redirecting speculative investment into ecological, social, and cultural-creative renewal (through gift money and intentional capital).
# '''Technology''': Close the feedback loop from technology creation to societal needs, particularly in underserved markets (through needs assessment and participatory planning).
# '''Leadership''': Close the feedback loop from leadership to the emerging future of the whole (through practices of co-sensing, co-inspiring, and co-creating).
# '''Consumption''': Close the feedback loop from economic output to the well-being of all (through conscious, collaborative consuming and new indicators such as GNH, or gross national happiness, discussed later in this chapter).
# '''Coordination''': Close the feedback loop in the economy from the parts to the whole (through ABC, awareness-based collective action).
# '''Ownership''': Close the feedback loop from ownership rights to the best societal use of assets (through shared ownership and commons-based property rights that safeguard the interests of future generations).

==U.School Elements - SEEDS U?==
# '''Global classroom.''' A blended technology approach that creates an intense, personal learning relationship among a global, multilocal community of learners and a world-class faculty by combining live-streamed classroom sessions and mini-lectures with highly interactive small-group practice sessions. Social media–supported conversation spaces would continue the classroom dialogue between sessions.
# '''Deep dives into inspiring local, regional, and global hot spots of innovation.''' Deep dives are total immersion journeys (actual, not virtual) that allow the learner to feel, empathize, and connect with multiple new perspectives (e.g., marginalized communities) and that connect the learner to a global web of inspiring living examples that address critical challenges in promising new ways.
# '''Awareness-based leadership technologies.''' The capacity to facilitate processes of profound societal innovation is grounded in mindful leadership and awareness-based leadership technologies that link the intelligences of head, heart, and hand. These methodologies combine state-of-the-art organizational learning tools with participatory innovation techniques and blend them with awareness-based leadership practices. Mastery of these blended new leadership technologies, such as presencing, to sense and actualize emerging future possibilities is the methodological backbone of the school.
# '''Presencing coaching circles.''' One of the most important mechanisms for holding the space for deep learning is peer circles that use deep listening–based coaching practices. A coaching circle usually consists of five to seven members and applies a version of the case clinic process that we described at the end of chapter 7. We have found that the power of these peer group circles is simply amazing. They hold the space for individual and shared renewal. As one member of Otto’s peer group put it in a recent coaching call with his colleagues: “You [the whole circle] are the cradle of my rebirth.” This may sound airy-fairy or sentimental to some, but it is in fact an accurate description of a subtle experience that all of us—and many others in their circles—have experienced.
# '''Action learning.''' Students participate on the frontlines of profound societal innovation through access to a global innovation ecology, and by being challenged to co-create hands-on prototype solutions that are helpful to a specific community or stakeholder constellation. These real-world prototypes are embedded in and guided by a global network of mentors and change-makers that operate in or collaborate with their living examples of institutional renewal.
# '''Innovation hubs.''' Innovation happens in places. Innovation hubs prototype the globally distributed campuses of the future. While a traditional campus is organized around discipline-based schools that deal separately with societal challenges and issues, an innovation hub is an inversion of that principle: It puts the emerging future opportunities at the center and organizes the disciplines and tools around them. Innovation hubs create spheres of hands-on innovation, a place for generative conversations that link and mediate between application-centric action learning projects and head-centric global classroom sessions. Innovation hubs are about integrating the intelligence of head, heart, and hand, not only for individuals but also for communities of innovators. Innovation Hubs will look different in different places. But they will share a blend of the following features:
## a space that evokes the mindful simplicity of a Buddhist temple;
## the hands-on creative atmosphere of a buzzing artistic community;
## the high-tech equipment that interconnects all these places to a functional, global web of co-sensing practices;
## the clarity of a well-organized think tank; and (e) the functionality of an avant-garde theater that can be turned in minutes into a stage for Social Presencing Theater. In short, an innovation hub would bear little resemblance to today’s campus, and it could in principle be replicated in cities, eco-systems, and urban or rural communities across the globe.
# '''Individualized lifelong learning journeys.''' If the classroom is global, if the sensing and actualizing of our emerging future are the real curriculum, and if the possible user base of this school is not tens or hundreds or thousands but millions, hundreds of millions, or billions—basically everyone who is interested in awakening, activating, and strengthening their capacity to be an entrepreneur from this deep place—then the question is: Who is navigating the amazing complexity of such a distributed eco-system? Who is designing your curriculum? The answer is, you are.

==U.School (Seeds U?): Three Core Activities==
[[File:U-school.jpg|600px]]

==Journaling Questions==
What do you see when you turn around? What is the seed of the future or the sprout that you see in your field? Here are twelve questions for you to ponder in your personal reflection. Take a journal and a quiet moment to write for a minute or so on each of them:
# What do you feel is wanting to transform within yourself?
# What do you want to bring into being?
# What do you need to let go of?
# While reading this book, what has been your most important insight?
# While reading this book, what has been your most important insight about yourself?
# While reading this book, what has touched you and why?
# While reading this book, what precious seed of the future (intention) did you become aware of?
# How can you pull people together from across different systems in order to do something inspiring, fun, and meaningful—your version of a GNH or Society 4.0 Lab?
# Who is your coaching circle—your circle of five or seven?
# What practices (moments of stillness) do you use to connect to Source?
# How do you balance beauty and truth in your life and work?
# What are your most important next steps? Your action items for the next three days?

==Circle Conversation==
With other people in your circle, reflect on these points:
# Each shares where you feel the crack
# Each shares an observation on your own opening over the past few weeks (open mind, heart, or will). # Share your observations on a conversational shift in your group that you may have noticed.
# Share how all these observations relate to the institutional inversion around you.
# What initiative, if taken on jointly, could help to shift the field of your system to 4.0?
# Who needs to be involved to make it work?
# Dialogue on and determine your next steps.
# Use the [http://presencing.com presencing.com] as a resource to get tools, share stories, and link up with a global community of other circles that are “joining the river.” Let’s meet at one of the upcoming forum events that will allow us to connect online or in person.
<br>

=Appendix=

[[File:Health-inequality.png|thumb|left|Health and social problems are closely related to inequality among rich countries.]]

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=Regen Living Ecosystem=
* [[Regen Living DHO]] - A collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
*[[Regen Civics Alliance Pilot Projects]]
*[[Regen Living Roadmap]]

=Place-Based Catalyst Hubs=

===LaLa Gardens===
[[LaLa Gardens Cooperative]] is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. It features natural farming and building, serving as a learning center for regenerative community ownership, governance, economy and culture based on caring, nature and a collective future.

===Commongrounds===
[[Commongrounds]] is a new 4-story, 50,000 s.f. $16 million development in Traverse City, Michigan cooperatively owned by nearly 600 members. It will feature a food incubator, coffeeshop, distillery, childcare center, cowering space for impact organizations and businesses, performing arts and events space, artist-in-residence space, and 24 workforce rental units. Construction began in Fall 2020, with tenants scheduled to move in by 2022.

=Mutualistic Communication + Governance=

==Regenerative Communication==
[[Regenerative communication]] - A holistic human-centric approach to communication. The term "regenerative" describes processes that restore our collective sources of energy through resilient practices that integrate the needs of society with the integrity of nature. Regenerative communication restores our connection to humanity and nature, by taking responsibility for our roles in co-creating a regenerative society.

==Partnerism==
[[Partnerism]] - A socio-economic system that values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future. Partnerism is based on [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_transformation_theory Cultural Transformation Theory], which proposes that societies used to follow a mutualistic, caring “partnership model” of civilization, giving way to today's current “dominator model” of civilization, but with growing evidence that we are returning to the partnership model.

==Prosocial==
[[Prosocial]] is an orientation toward the welfare of others and society as a whole. This might be an attitude, a behavior, or an institution. It might be directed toward family and friends or the social acceptance of all people. Ultimately, Prosocial is an entire worldview.

=Regeneration=
===Regenerative Systems===
[[Regenerative Systems]] - An overview of regenerative systems and their applications.

=Self Organization=
===Systems===
[[Self Organization|Self Organization Systems]] - A list of self-organizing systems.

===Sensemaking===
[[Sensemaking]] - A primer on the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences.

=Co-Creation=
[[Co-Creation Systems]] - Systems, models, tools for co-creation

=Regenerative Currency=
===SEEDS===
* [[SEEDS]] - An overview of the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[SEEDS Neighborhubs]] - A peer onboarding program for SEEDS members, learning and growing together
* [[Partnerism in SEEDS]] - A course on [[Partnerism]], an economic and cultural system based on nature and caring, as an alternative to domination culture.
* [[Regenerative Civics Incubator & Alliance]] - a program to pilot regenerative operating systems to place-based regenerative development projects.
* [[SEEDS_Changemakers_Program|SEEDS Changemakers Program]] - An ambassador program to onboard changemakers to SEEDS Citizens.
* [[SEEDS_Changemaker_Guide|SEEDS Changemaker Guide]] - A Changemaker's guide to participating in the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[SEEDS Changemakers Onboarding Pilot]] - An experimental program to onboard 100 changemakers without personal invites into SEEDS via the [[SEEDS_Changemakers_Program|SEEDS Changemakers Program]].
* [[SEEDS_Glossary|SEEDS Glossary]] - A glossary of key terms in the SEEDS ecosystem.
* [[DAO/DHO Platform]] - A governance, operations, and tokenomics platform for Decentralized Autonomous/Human Organizations (DAO/DHOs).
* [[SEEDS_Roadmap_to_Globally_Regenerative_Economies|SEEDS Roadmap]] - An overview of the future of SEEDS.
* [[SEEDS_FAQ|SEEDS FAQ]] - Frequently asked questions.
* [[SEEDS_Gratitude|SEEDS Gratitude]] - An overview of the innovative gratitude system in SEEDS.
* [[Leading from the Emerging Future: From Ego-System to Eco-System Economies]] - A framework for ecosystem building based on Theory
* [[Regenerative Communication]] - A holistic human-centric approach to communication.

=Regenerative Urban Planning and Development=
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* [https://formbasedcodes.org Form-based Codes Institute] - The organization that supports regenerative urban planning operating systems known as form-based codes.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Form-based_code Form-based Codes] - Form-based codes are a planning and development code that prioritizes physical form (rather than separation of uses) as the organizing principle for regenerative development. The SmartCode is one example of a form-based code.
* [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SmartCode SmartCode] - A regenerative urban planning and development operating system and form-based code.
* [https://transect.org/codes.html SmartCode documents] - SmartCode documents.
* [https://www.cnu.org/who-we-are/charter-new-urbanism Charter for New Urbanism] - A set of principles and guide for regenerative community planning and development.

=Resources=

[[Glossary]] - Terms that define the co-creation of a world of mutuality

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LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-10-07T18:12:48Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Milestones */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Wisdom Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-10-07T18:11:23Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Milestones */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-10-07T18:11:15Z

Bethechangecoop: /* History */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=Milestones=
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-09-07T09:07:44Z

Bethechangecoop: /* History */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in Sept 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan'to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Regenerative NFTs==
This Garden Gate, NFT token has all the inherent value one small acre, LaLa Gardens Cooperative can articulate in any given season. This season, the genesis season of our cooperative, brings educational offerings and boutique items that are limited and garden grown, trade-route featuring and distributed, ally supporting and fully nurtured and nurturing, describing on purchase, the pathways from where you are to where you want to be in the garden you dream of, journey to, keep in view until you are at the garden gate and through, into your garden, in concert with other gardens. May it begin here.

If the Garden Gate NFT is the What and When of Regenerative gardens as fully functioning ecological, economic, governing and distributing ecosystems,
The Microbe Heroes NFT token is the Why and the How.
This generative NFT project is for the gardeners, human, animal or microbial, virtual or IRL. Templates and modulus created for land-based projects require an entire menu of tools, offered from practicing gardeners and farmers to lawyers, auditors, artists and myth makers. It requires coordination of philosophizing and materialization. In a word, metamorphosis. What emerges will be brand new.

The [https://www.regengarden.io/launchpad-projects/microbe-heroes Microbe Heroes NFT] collection is an architecture that overlays the function of LaLa Gardens as a regenerative system and maps a viable path by which other gardens step from exploitative to a regenerative path to Legacy Stewardship, inclusive of the community and ecosystems from which they are born. Of the proceeds going to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative ecosystem, 60% goes to support the ongoing metamorphosis of the garden from private to cooperative, from ownership to stewardship. 40% of the proceeds go to fund the proposals we as the NFT holders submit for our own aligned projects with the feedback loops in place to nurture the garden, attending to future thrive and regenerative abundance.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative is the rooted place where we as community members and owners (onboarded in part through the NFT collections as described) not only ‘re-wild’ but discover we are wild, diverse, resilient and that together we describe an entire ecosystem by gaining the tools of stewardship, coming together to do great and small works; informed and guided by nature, as natural beings.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|To Date
|Sydney Griffith
|$1500
|Resident Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop, as co-founder. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner, both in garden and social design. She is a practicing Natural Farmer, including KNF and JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous microorganisms (IMO). She utilizes observational based citizen science, ‘practicing to know’ through side-by-sides within her environments, supported through research. She has been a maker and crafter of wreaths, jewelry, art prints and a clothing line, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The immersive work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christinia Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins. Find her at: [https://winyanmaka07.webs.com/ Website] - & facebook page - [https://www.facebook.com/tiyospayewinyanmaka/ Facebook]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is LaLa Garden's Alchemist in Residence, Event Producer, & Community Manager. Sydney is a community organizer and event producer focused on bringing people together through events that foster opportunities for people to practice their art, share resources, build community, and acquire the skills to survive and thrive, including regenerative gardening, food production and natural building.This calling guided her to apply for a Seeds cryptocurrency grant - awarded to her to co-found Permatours, a learn-by-doing permaculture-action and sustainable construction tour across the northeast of the U.S. Contributors of Permatours’ are rewarded Seeds, which they can use to buy products and services from each other. Permatours has accomplished 40 projects and is expanding internationally. Sydney also builds Web3-based infrastructure to reward regeneratively-principled, nature-aligned and culturally coherent causes, creatives, & their supporters. At LaLa Gardens, Sydney supports with member development, Web3 integration, strategic partnerships, and event production.
[https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===The LaLa name===
LaLa came from a late evening conversation in the garden with a visitor who said, “I don’t know what it is about this place, but I don’t want to leave. It’s like being in LaLa Land.” Christina Trout, "What that quality is, I suppose as Steward to this place, is it’s wildness, it’s rewilding, it’s being allowed succession by which its garden voice, its earth voice is emerging... voiced by those in the garden from microbe to creature, from plant to human… to community. LaLa speaks to the young in us, the wild and the natural."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://www.lalagardens.coop]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-15T20:34:56Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Wisdom Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-15T20:34:44Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Wisdom Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the advising council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
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|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:44:06Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|[http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute]
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:43:31Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|<a href=http://regenlive.org>Regenerative Living Institute</a>
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris3.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="SimoneHarris">Simone Harris</div>
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:41:22Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|Simone Harris
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

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2022-08-09T19:40:38Z

Bethechangecoop:

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:38:28Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
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|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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|Simone Harris
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:37:20Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris.jpg|left|120px]]
|Simone Harris
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:36:55Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}
|-
|[[File:Simoneharris.jpg|left|120px]]
|Simone Harris
|Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T19:35:20Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|In this dynamic Universe, I identify as a Storyteller, Social-Emotional Learning Coach, and Steward of Indigenous Science; residing deep in the South on the Bayous of Louisiana, here on the lands where the Chicmatchi tribes were the original stewards of this land. A descendant of the Yoruba tribes of Benin & Nigeria, I come from a long lineage of Storytellers and Medicine Women who have long used the generative Ancestral Healing praxis of restorative storytelling in community well-circles to cultivate healing from suffering. I guide people through a journey of Emotional Recovery, which is about using the wisdom of our emotions to help guide us to seeing more clearly the story of our mental and emotional patterns that we hold on to in order to keep us safe from harm-real & perceived. Working with individuals and in community, together we integrate the story of our whole human experience in order to see ourselves as holistic human beings, and to be able to see the humanity in others in order to build together the world we deserve, which is rooted in love, justice, & belonging. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/simone-harris-4922b017/ LinkedIn]

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T12:58:12Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Current Steps */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public, with an immediate goal of raising $50,000 for the down payment of a personal loan.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
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|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T12:57:11Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Milestones */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [https://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [https://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [https://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T12:56:51Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Milestones */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]
* August 4, 2022: [https://www.itsallmadeup.org/dccontainer-burningman Investment], [httpc://lalagardens.coop/owners ownership], [httpc://lalagardens.coop/members membership] and [httpc://lalagardens.coop/residents residency] opened to the general public.

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-09T01:05:42Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre residence and natural farming demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-08T18:21:20Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christinaeala.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christina Eala
|Lakota Grandmother, Environmental Activist & Protector of Lakota women & children
|Storyteller, Water Protector, Veteran, Founder and Co-Director of her nonprofit, Tiyospaye Winyan Maka, (Extended Family of Women of the Earth). Her working career began in the field of mental health, addressing the needs of those developmentally diabled, young and elders, those Native Americans living with HIV/Aids and women in alcohol recovery programs, honoring their children to be kept with them through treatment. At 58, Christinia received her degree in psychology to continue her life of service and volunteer work in areas of Homlessness, women and children advocacy, restorative justice, and the people of Lakota Nation and the extended global community of indigenous peoples. Christina has served on the boards of the Coalition for the Homeless and the United Nations Association. These organizations provided the networks Tiyospaye Winyan Maka needed to build homes, organize food supply caravans during floods, and deliver propane in winter storms. She also partners with groups like Engineers Without Borders, The Indigenous Wisdom Center (Slim Buttes, South Dakota), Her Many Voices (Boulder, Colorado,) and Neighbor to Neighbor in Fort Collins.
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

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2022-08-08T17:41:24Z

Bethechangecoop:

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-04T21:00:32Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, economy, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
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|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
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|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-04T21:00:12Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying regenerative systems to real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-04T20:49:28Z

Bethechangecoop:

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a community-owned living, learning community center in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-04T19:44:05Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

SEEDS Changemakers Onboarding Pilot

2022-08-04T12:24:29Z

Bethechangecoop:

The '''SEEDizen Adoption Onboarding Program''' stewarded by the [[SEEDS Changemakers Program]] redirects the personal invite reward (2000 Seeds) to instead support hosts, especially those associated with organizations and DHOs, in adopting new SEEDizens and onboarding them to become Changemaker Citizens - SEEDS Citizens edified in the regenerative culture of Partnerism and collaborating with other SEEDizens on a regenerative project. This initiative received 200,000 Seeds from the SEEDS grant program in November 2021 to execute this program.

=Become a Changemaker Citizen=
* Become a [[SEEDS_Changemaker_Guide#Citizens|SEEDS Citizen]].
* Complete the [[Partnerism in SEEDS]] course (can be completed in a day).
* Collaborate on a regenerative project with [[SEEDS_Changemakers|fellow Changemakers]].

=Become a Changemaker Host=
What does being a Changemaker Host mean?

* You are committed to [[SEEDS_Changemakers_Onboarding_Pilot#Become_a_Changemaker_Citizen|becoming a Changemaker Citizen]].
* You are committed to onboarding new SEEDizens and supporting existing ones with their regenerative projects.
* You are eligible to onboard new SEEDizens into SEEDS, and be remunerated for it (2000 Seeds) through this program.
* You are eligible to be remunerated for helping host Changemaker Zoom and Clubhouse meetups.
* You are helping provide diverse gylanic (female/male balanced) global representation. We can't accept too many hosts from one bioregion or gender, you can see global representation [[SEEDS_Changemakers|here]].
* A Changemaker steward will check in after three months of inactivity by any participant to see if they still want to continue. You can rejoin at any time.

=Resources=
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/15LvnCoHYyhAPMss4JutYZrGSAoDdJ4FkB7FG5D9ta_g SEEDizen Adoption Onboarding Program] - The approved SEEDS proposal that this program is based on.

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-08-04T01:07:42Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Ledger */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

Commongrounds

2022-08-01T17:00:30Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Resources */

[[File:Commongrounds.jpg|600px|thumb|right|Commongrounds rendering]][[File:Commongrounds-live.jpg|600px|thumb|right]]Commongrounds is a new 4-story, 50,000 s.f. $16 million development in Traverse City, Michigan cooperatively owned by nearly 600 members. It will feature a food incubator, coffeeshop, distillery, childcare center, cowering space for impact organizations and businesses, performing arts and events space, artist-in-residence space, and 24 workforce rental units. Construction began in Fall 2020, with tenants scheduled to move in by 2022.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

'''Mission''' - To support, develop, and occupy cooperative real estate that meets community needs and increases quality of life in its region.

'''Values''' - The building integrates food, family, arts, and wellness to generate triple-bottom-line returns to the community and its tenant and community owners.

'''Vision''' - Commongrounds serves as a backbone for the community's people and organizations to be healthy, connected, creative, and inclusive; increase their [https://www.wired.com/insights/2014/12/the-adjacent-possible-of-big-data/ adjacent possible] and achieve [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collective_impact collective impact] on the [https://www.rollins.edu/wellness-center/nine-dimensions-of-wellness/ nine dimensions of individual and community well-being]. Commongrounds will provide shared value and triple-bottom-line (environmental, social, economic) returns on investment by tenants, partner organizations, and people working, living, learning, and playing in the region.

=Ownership=

Commongrounds is a real estate cooperative with two classes of ownership:

===Tenant Owners===
Community-serving businesses and nonprofits that purchased a commercial condo space on the first two floors of the building. See [[Commongrounds#Tenants]]. They vote in all but three of the board directors.

===Community Owners===
Anyone who purchases a $50 share. They vote in three of the board directors and are invited to participate in the annual ownership meeting.

[[File:Commongrounds-ownership.jpg|600px]]

=Governance=
Commongrounds is governed by a board of directors voted in by the owners.
===Separation of finance and governance===
Financing and governance are completely disconnected, no tenant has more say than any other, no community members has any more say than any other regardless of financial contribution, which consists of ownership and what is effectively a collective/solidarity loan. For instance, if a [[Commongrounds#Community_Owners|Community Owner]] contributes $1000, $50 of that goes to purchasing a Community Ownership share, and $950 is accounted for as a loan. There is a $500 minimum to be considered a loan, otherwise any amount beyond $50 is accounted for as a donation.

=Tenants=
* Food Hall: A five-stall food hall modeled after the Flint Social Club, focused on equitable business development and incubation. It will have a community kitchen with revenue sharing, and backbone support with mentorship) with central bar: Higher Grounds by day, Iron Fish Distillery by night.

* Coffee bar: Higher Grounds, a certified b-corp, provides high-quality coffee directly sourced from farmers to support coffee-growing communities.

* Distillery: Iron Fish Distillery is Michigan’s first working farm solely dedicated to the practice of distilling small-batch craft spirits. Our family reclaimed a late 1890’s abandoned farmstead with a simple mission in mind: we create exceptional spirits from the ground up, growing our own grain and sourcing grain from Michigan farmers with practices that respect the health of nearby watersheds. Our true passion is to offer customers and visitors the craft of soil-to-spirit distilling from a family business that cares about our employees, community, and the living land. Every step of the process – from growing and harvesting non GMO grain to cultivating native yeast, milling, mashing, fermenting, distilling, aging and bottling – is done by hand at our distillery. We replace global with local wherever we can, with the highest standards along the way. Learn moreXhatch LOGO.png

* Performing Arts + Education Space: Nonprofit Crosshatch will partner with musician May Erlewine to create a performing arts center that seats 150 people with a stage for concerts, theater, and dance. The space is designed to be used for community events, education and public meetings. Founded in 2005, Crosshatch explores the intersections of farming, art, economy and ecology. Crosshatch began because of co-founders Brad and Amanda Kik's shared belief that the arts and ecology are intertwined and essential to enriching community.

* Coworking space for impact organizations: A community innovation hub, Commonplace holds space for people who enliven healthy, collaborative, and creative organizations and communities to work, learn, and connect.

* Healthcare: Table Health is building health forward communities set to revolutionize how we give and receive primary healthcare. Table Health sets its foundation for healthcare delivery on true community connection, personal responsibility for health, a welcoming environment, an affordable & transparent direct pay system, and a spirit of trust and collaboration.

* Childcare center: Wildflower Montessori, a network of shopfront teacher spaces, first to open working with a community college certification program, to provide childcare for toddlers, evening and weekends. The space will also be used for events.

* Workforce housing: 24 rentals.

* Artist retreat space: 1 bedroom with hotel room attached for curated guests.

=Project Timeline=
2017
* Chris Treter (Higher Grounds coffee) + Joe Sarafa (realtor) developed “Phase I” and “Phase II” plan
* Phase 1 + Phase II approved for brownfield funding by county and city
* Hired Ray Kendra, Environment Architects as architect

2018
* Kate Redman (Commonplace coworking) joined the team to help develop the real estate cooperative ownership and investment crowdfunding structure
* Chris, Joe and Kate form Commongrounds Cooperative to purchase and develop Phase I
* Cooperative raises $550k and purchases property in August 2018
* Tenant-partners commit
* Community “early bird” ownership drive gaining 450+ community owners• Hallmark Construction hired as Construction Manager

2019
* Investment crowdfunding drive to raise equity from community ($850k from 130+ people)
* Zoning and site plan approval
* Building design and engineering completed
* $1.4 million raised from community owners

2020
* Completed financing approvals and groundbreaking
* Organization and partnerships developed

2022
* Commongrounds opens!

=Crowdfunding=
* [http://commongrounds.coop Website]
* [https://localstake.com/businesses/commongrounds-cooperative-cf/preview Non-accredited crowd-lending campaign 2019 ($500 min)]: $272,000 raised from 101 investors
August 20, 2019 to April 16, 2020
* [https://localstake.com/businesses/commongrounds-cooperative/preview Accredited crowd-lending campaign 2019 ($10,000 min)]: $546,000 raised from 26 investors August 20, 2019 to April 2, 2020
* [https://mainvest.com/b/commongrounds-cooperative-traverse-city Non-accredited crowd-lending campaign 2021 ($100 min)]: $426,000 over 7 months

=Resources=
* [http://commongrounds.coop Website]

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LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-30T16:18:17Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Stewards Circle */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

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Bethechangecoop:

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T21:58:24Z

Bethechangecoop: /* History */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T18:23:37Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property debt */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$98,000
|-
|Total
|$349,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
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|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
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|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|[[File:Sydharvey.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2014 or 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T18:08:52Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Foreclosure prevention */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$96,000
|-
|Total
|$427,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$98,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$349,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2014 or 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T18:08:23Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property debt */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$96,000
|-
|Total
|$427,000
|}

Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$96,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$347,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2014 or 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T18:07:57Z

Bethechangecoop: /* Property debt */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$96,000
|-
|Total
|$427,000
|}

* Tina added $80,000 in tenant improvements since 2004, which has added to the total property value of property.

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$96,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$347,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Kennedytheresa.jpg|left|120px]]
|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Monicagutierrez.jpg|left|120px]]
|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
|-
|[[File:Rasikalasantha2.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
|-

|[[File:Neiltakemoto.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Leahgibbons.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Lettyprados.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Megrivers.jpg|left|120px]]
|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Elizabethherald.jpg|left|120px]]
|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Joemcginn.jpg|left|120px]]
|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Bryandeans.jpg|left|120px]]
|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
|-
|[[File:Dujondomblondel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Christythiel.jpg|left|120px]]
|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Harolddavis.jpg|left|120px]]
|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
|-
|[[File:Sydharvey.jpg|left|120px]]
|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
|}

=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2014 or 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].

LaLa Gardens Cooperative

2022-07-25T17:44:25Z

Bethechangecoop: /* The Financials */

[[File:Lalagardens.jpg|600px|thumb|right|LaLa Gardens site plan rendering]]'''LaLa Gardens Cooperative''' is a one-acre home and garden demonstration of permaculture in the exurbs of Fort Collins, Colorado, transitioning from private to cooperative ownership as a model for regenerative development. The garden features regenerative farming and gardening courses, and is a pilot project for community ownership, governance, economy and culture that is based on a Declaration of Interdependence and in part, utilizes a global regenerative currency and ecosystem. It is reflective of hyperlocalsystems of [[Partnerism]], membership, gifting, trade and other forms of mutual support. It is developing models for applying NFTs to regenerative real estate, education, marketplaces, art, culture and re-sci as a model for any neighborhood.

=Mission, Values, Vision=

==Purpose==
The purpose of LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA is to steward a community-owned regenerative garden, community residence and learning center that is a fractal of an ecosystem supporting regenerative development. The Cooperative values and rewards caring for one another, nature, and our collective future; giving visibility to the natural process of stewarding a regenerative place, implementing and catalyzing cultural shifts towards thrivability applicable at each time, place and condition.

==Vision==
* To put the land into a protected status under Cooperatively owned Stewardship, by which ownership is redefined to be that of stewardship.
* To have the economy built from the function of the garden as regenerative collaborations that are of a sharing nature, so sharing-economy and also function as sanctuary for a few on site members and visitors for learning and immersion experiences.
* To have the garden be a replicable model for regenerative living.

{{#ev:youtube|https://youtu.be/Hv-_g0PbmxA}}

==Declaration of Interdependence==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/ Declaration of Interdependence]

=Revenue=
==Rentals==
==Education and Demonstration==
==Retreats and Therapy==
==Products==

=Private to Cooperative Ownership=

LaLa Gardens is transferring property ownership to a cooperative with its own community currency/token, but first it needs to be saved from foreclosure in July 2022. See the key steps below.

==Current Steps==

===Step 1: Save the property from foreclosure===
* This step is being publicly discussed in the [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 LaLa Gardens Cooperative Discord] in the #1-save-the-property channel.
* [http://regenlive.org Regenerative Living Institute], its founders [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] and Brandon Yarborough, or a trusted third party will secure a 'hard loan' of [[#Foreclosure_prevention|$169,000]] to purchase current owner [[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout's]] property and prevent it from being lost to the banks in foreclosure in July, 2022.
* This includes an agreement to purchase to transfer ownership to a cooperative that will purchase the property at wholesale value from Tina, as well as a long-term lease for her and her mom.
* Current status: Tina and Brandon are securing the details of the foreclosure status. Leah is checking on her mortgage qualifications as the interim owner. [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] is developing the ownership transfer agreements.
* June 25, 2022: [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VDX7_w5bP6nn-m_UhbMvVZK_t33uNu-ZVm-8Ewuc9mY Covenant signed by Christina Trout to sell property to LaLa Gardens Cooperative].
* June 28, 2022: [[#LeahGibbons|Leah Gibbons]] agrees to personal conventional loan of $450,000 to save the property.

===Step 2: Transition to cooperative ownership===
* See [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* The newly restructured LaLa Gardens Cooperative, LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) will begin a cooperative structuring process with [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] to transition LaLa Gardens from private to community ownership.
* [[Regen Living Ecosystem|Regen Living DHO]] is a collective impact initiative to develop and fund ecosystem prototypes and place-based pilot projects that set the bar significantly higher for what regenerative development is.
* The objective is for LaLa Gardens Cooperative to become a model blueprint for developing a catalytic regenerative community-ownership project, aka [[Catalyst hub|catalyst hub]].
* June 1, 2022: Christy Thiel contributes first $100 towards community ownership.
* June 16, 2022: [[#LettyPrados|Letty]] provides the following documents:
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Qk5ZcG0BuqIYaYTiinSczJrnYM_rJu0lvHFku1CN_tI/ Transfer of ownership agreement] - Needs editing
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rCziJ-UZsrovNp1OQYzq6iBb0EnPEVnzDmXSzJ0Vjb0/edit LCA (Limited Cooperative Association) filing] - Articles of Organization, Colorado, USA
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/view?usp=sharing LCA is filed] with the State of Colorado.
** Aryabhatta contributes $1000 towards first steward ownership.
* July 12, 2022: Christina Trout, Leah Gibbons, Neil Takemoto are elected as interim board directors of the cooperative by the Articles of Organization signators.
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ Bylaws signed]

==Future Steps==
===Step 3: Cooperative Governance===
* LaLa Gardens Cooperative + LaLa DAO
** Colorado Uniform Limited Cooperative Association: governs and holds the DAO
** Multi-stakeholder DAO
* Token: LaLa Coin - pegged to the Garden regenerative value, determined by different roles/members/patrons within LaLa Gardens, LCA structure, both community and governance.

==The Financials==

'''Opportunity'''
* $347,490 is owed on a property valued at $700,000.

===Property value===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Value
|-
|'''Asset'''
|'''Wholesale Value'''
|'''Retail Value'''
|-
|Land and buildings
|$700,000
|$800,000+ estimated, to be appraised
|}

===Property debt===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="2"|Property Debt
|-
|Mortgage balance
|$251,000
|-
|Solar array balance
|$96,000
|-
|Tenant improvements
|$80,000
|-
|Total
|$427,000
|}

===Foreclosure prevention===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Foreclosure Prevention Status
|-
|'''Creditor/Bank'''
|'''Balance'''
|'''Payments due'''
|-
|Shellpoint (primary mortgage)
|$214,470
|$56,000
|-
|Select Portfolio Servicing (secondary mortgage)
|$37,020
|$3000
|-
|Asset Recovery Solutions (solar loan)
|$96,000
|$98,000
|-
|IRS tax lien
|
|$12,000
|-
|Total
|$347,490
|$169,000
|}

===Property revenue===
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="3"|Property Revenue
|-
|'''Current monthly rent'''
|'''Monthly rent w/ $50K improvements'''
|'''NFT program'''
|'''Education program'''
|-
|$1500
|$3000
|
|
|}

'''History:'''
* Original purchase in 2004: $250,000

=Regenerative Finance=
==Gitcoin Grant==
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/10SZW3C3WSEx8gKG3XRgq4FZ-c8yoHB4wjdNyM_9_rS0 Gitcoin Grant for GR14] - Join the Inoculators journey as a Regen Hero!
==Harmony Grant==

==Regenerative NFT==
[[Microbe Heroes]] - A regenerative NFT consisting of 5000 unique NFTs designed around [[5_Future_Archetypes|five regenerative archetypes]]. 70% of each NFT sale goes to LaLa Gardens (the other 30% goes to Regen Gardens), and 60% of that goes to the LaLa Gardens Cooperative property ownership (the other 40% goes to LaLa Gardens programming).
* Whitelist: Registration to develop a list of people who get early and guaranteed access to buy NFTs at a specific date and window of time.
* Presale: The sale of 1000 NFTs, generating $42,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative, $28,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.
* General sale: The sale of 4000 NFTs, generating $252,000 toward the LaLa Gardens Cooperative. $210,000 for LaLa Gardens ecosystem programs.

==Ledger==
{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Contributions
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Contributor'''
|'''Amount'''
|'''Purpose'''
|-
|6/1/22
|Christy Thiel
|$100
|Community Owner
|-
|6/28/22
|Aryabhatta Sura
|$1000
|Steward Owner
|-
|}

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Expenses
|-
|'''Date'''
|'''Purpose'''
|'''Amount'''
|-
|6/28/22
|State filing fee for cooperative
|$50
|-
|}

=Stewards Circle=
The '''Stewards Circle of LaLa Gardens''' is the wisdom council stewarding the regenerative self, family, community of the LaLa Gardens Cooperative and beyond. It is majority female, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Person_of_color#BIPOC BIPOC], and one fourth Native American/indigenous. The members include:

{| class="wikitable"
!colspan="4"|Steward Circle
|-
|[[File:Tinatrout.jpg|left|120px]]
|<div id="ChristinaTrout">Christina 'Tina' Trout</div>
|LaLa Gardens Cooperative
|Tina is the founder of LaLa Gardens, and stewarding it to become LaLa Gardens Cooperative. She had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. She grows food, and is a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. She is a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). She can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. She has made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. She designs, hand-prints and sews clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. She is a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. She has learned principally it’s through observation first that we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. She has observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, she steps into her truest self, prepared for the work at hand. The work she was born to love. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalagardens LinkedIn]
|-
|[[File:Reiyoon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Rei Yoon
|Soil and Soul Organic Movement
|Rei has been involved in Natural Farming since 2002, as a hub that could solve many problems of our society simultaneously, a means to rehabilitate the environment, lift people out of poverty, and properly feed them with healthy food. He quit his government job in 2012 to entirely commit to the pursuit of this goal. He was fortunate to have a group of people who wanted to do it together, and formed Sarm Society. He was gifted with a connection to the Philippines in particular, where he formed a collaboration with a local Archdiocese together with his Hawaiian brother to serve marginalized communities. He is the director of Soil and Soul Organic Movement, secretary for SARM Society of Organic Movement, and a Tai Chi martial artist. Rei calls his regenerative farming method "Ppuri - Farming for People's Power" in belief that farming has been hijacked by business to effectively alienate the farmers, that it needs to return to its root (Ppuri) of healing the land and empowering the people.
|-
|[[File:Marcusgrignon.jpg|left|120px]]
|Marcus Grignon
|Hempstead Project HEART, Menominee tribe
|Marcus’ professional career includes service as an advocate in the public sector. Marcus served the Obama Administration as a staff assistant for the Small Business Administration’s Office of Native American Affairs and as an AmeriCorps member for the Santa Fe Food Policy Council and Earthcare International. He began his federal career as a legislative intern for U.S. Senator Debbie Stabenow in 2009. He is an enrolled member of the Menominee Nation in Keshena, Wisconsin. He is a recipient of the 2010 Brower Youth Award from the Earth Island Institute. Marcus holds a double associates degree in Tribal Law and Sustainable Development from the College of Menominee Nation and a Bachelor's degree in Democracy and Justice Studies with a minor in First Nations from the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. He holds various certificates in political management, lobbying, Indigenous Entrepreneurship, and the Federal Budget Process from George Washington University, the Institute of American Indian Arts, and American University. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcus-grignon-2118b811/ LinkedIn]
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|Theresa Kennedy
|Black History DAO
|Theresa is the founder of Black History DAO, focusing on a decentralized history to bridge the metaverse, blockchain, and the preservation of historical sites for the preservation of black history. She blogs, researches and does tours on ancient African architecture in America and their impact on the world and colonial America. She is part owner in Artifak Urban ArtWear out of Pyramid Studios in Philadelphia, PA, an affordable luxury art apparel, & lifestyle brand worn by prominent musical artists such as Will Smith, P Diddy, and Jay-Z. She is a crypto-certified real estate professional specializing in blockchain and real estate IT. In 2021 Theresa Kennedy joined FIBREE.org, Foundation for International Blockchain and Real Estate Expertise: The leading international network for exchanging knowledge between the real estate industry, the IT sector and blockchain technology, as a Regional Chair in Atlantic City, NJ. She hosts Meetup.com meetings around real estate tokenization, and is a crypto-certified agent with Propy.com for real estate agents using cryptocurrency in closings or blockchain technology in the transaction of real estate process. In 2021 She was a winner in the DAO Hackathon. She is a founding member of REtoken DAO LLC, a real estate tokenization decentralized autonomous organization. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/theresavkennedy/ LinkedIn]
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|Monica Gutierrez
|Hopi, Santa Clara Tribe
|Monica's professional is a landscape ecologist in the public sector, serving as a National Parks intern at Gulf Islands National Seashore, a student leader at the Institute of American Indian Arts’ campus design, and worker at the Green Bay Botanical Gardens. She is an enrolled member of the Hopi Tribe in Arizona. She is the recipient of the National Professional Agricultural Student Organization’s Landscape Design/Nursery Development and Ornamental Horticulture Specialist 2nd place in the categories of team and individual. Currently, she owns a small business, Autumn Storm Composting, which diverts green waste from the kitchens of local restaurants with the help of her two Netherland Dwarf rabbits. Monica holds a double associates degree in Fine Arts for Photography from the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico and Landscape Horticulture from the Northeast Wisconsin Technical College in Green Bay, Wisconsin. She holds various certificates in Integrated Pest Management, Greenhouse Production, and Sustainability from Northeast Wisconsin Technical College and the City of Santa Fe.
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|Rasika Lasantha
|Sri Lanka Agriculture Department
|Rasika is an agriculture consultant and armature artist from southern Sri Lanka, working in the government Agriculture Department as a Development Officer (Agriculture Consultant) since 2013. He advises individual farmers, farm societies, farm managers, and other agricultural entrepreneurs, government and private institutes, on all agriculture procedures, including crop selection and post-harvesting technologies related to their agriculture products. He also trains people in the floriculture and landscaping sectors, and developed and implemented a comprehensive landscaping course to train newcomers. As a part-time landscape designer, he has developed and implemented numerous landscaping projects for public and private venues. He strongly believes that the entire global agriculture sector should be reformed radically, utilizing resources like art, music, philosophy from thousands of years back. He grows fruits, vegetables, green leaves, yams like crops and medicinal plants, applying sustainable methods to keep it natural as an alternative to so-called popular growing methods, not only as an agriculturist but also as an artist, musician, and social activist. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/k-a-rasika-lasantha LinkedIn]
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|<div id="NeilTakemoto">Neil Takemoto</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Neil has a 30-year vocation in regenerative development. He is co-founder of Regen Living, a decentralized organization developing prototype regenerative buildings and neighborhoods (catalyst hubs), and global ecosystems that enable any neighborhood to co-create their own using their own currency. He is a steward of the Regen Civics Alliance, supporting 13 place-based pilot projects in regenerative development around the world. He is a member of the Burning Man Diversity Forum, developing a new standard of racial inclusion and catalyzing a global multicultural neighborhood for persons of color at Burning Man 2022. As co-founder of CSPM Group, he developed the practice of crowdsourced placemaking (CSPM) that integrates mutualistic community organizing with triple-bottom-line placemaking. This included onboarding 10,000 residents in the revitalization of several downtowns with developers, investors and municipalities. He is the founder of Collective Impact Lab, a crowdsourced placemaking news site featuring over 1700 entries dating back to 2003. In 1997 he founded the National Town Builders Association, the only business trade group of Smart Growth/New Urbanism real estate developers that thrives today. Prior to that, he founded a national nonprofit educational clearinghouse for the New Urbanism field. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/neiltakemoto/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LeahGibbons">Dr Leah Gibbons</div>
|Regenerative Living Institute
|Dr. Leah Gibbons is a cultural creative and regenerative catalyst supporting shifts to thrivability in individuals, communities, and beyond. Leah contributes expertise in regenerative development and design, community development, ecological design, sustainability, planning, integrated design, holistic health, coaching, consulting, education, spiritual practices, research, and science-practice and science-spirituality integration. Leah holds a PhD in Sustainability from Arizona State University; MS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology from the University of Tennessee; BS in Biology and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University; and Certifications in Regenerative Development and Design, Ecological Design, Sustainable Community Design, Permaculture Design, Holistic Health, Integrative Nutrition, Coaching, Wetland Delineation, and Prescribed Burn. She is also trained in energy medicine, functional medicine, herbology, and consciousness medicine. Leah is the Director and Founder of Regenerative Living Institute (ReLI), a 501(c)3 working to create regenerative individuals, communities, cities, and regions through living-learning laboratories. She is also of Director and Founder of Koru Collaborative, a regenerative development, design, and consulting firm. She is also a spiritual facilitator and guide at Shamanic Church, a spiritual organization devoted to helping people connect deeply to their true nature as spiritual beings. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leahvgibbons/ LinkedIn]
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|<div id="LettyPrados">Letty Prados</div>
|Regen Living DHO
|Letty has a 15-year expertise in impact entrepreneurship and mission driven organizations. Initially as a founder, she led startups in the purpose-driven work and gamification verticals under global networks such as Explorer and The Founder Institute, where she also became a mentor. Her passion for technological development benefiting humanity led her to consult for the XPrize Foundation in the affordable housing roadmap, and for Bridge for Billions and other social innovation-led platform organizations within the Impact Hub brand internationally. She is now focused on ReFi, Token Engineering and blockchain applications for growing intentionally conscious communities and on the ground regenerative developments. Before that, she was a licensed lawyer in the Madrid Bar Association advising in corporate and labor law, and later a research consultant in a big media company in London, where she gained a MA in European and International Studies at King’s College London. She also completed the first accredited executive programme in Cryptoassets and Blockchain from the London School of Economics. As a certified Yoga Teacher and avid traveler, she has explored many of the world's spiritual traditions both in practice and in ancient knowledge. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/leticiaprados/ LinkedIn]
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|Meg Rivers
|Bloom Network
|Meg is a 20+ year software trainer and platforms instructional designer building a social media platform to facilitate regenerative culture building via [http://bloomnetwork.org Bloom Network], an international community of people and projects working toward regenerative cultures. She is the acting CIO of Bloom and supports the amazing work done at Lala Gardens because regenerative culture and garden education are some of the most important tools towards evolving humanity's future. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/meg-rivers-9bb464159/ LinkedIn]
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|Elizabeth Herald
|Watershed Wisdom Councils
|Elizabeth has worked in media production for 30 years in freelance media production at every level. She intentionally chose this as her profession believing that modern media is the one of most powerful methods by which humans are learning and communicating, and holds great potential for teaching a regenerative human culture on Earth. Over her lifetime, Elizabeth has opened gradually to the subtle vibrations and the inner teachings of our Living Source Water. She offers the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyYMSqNjZbQ Watershed Wisdom Councils Concept] as an emerging whole systems model for connecting, organizing and mentoring local Water Stewards towards implementing a thriving regenerative human culture on Earth. As a faithful Water Steward she invites us to reconsider our relationship within our Living Source Water as whole, sacred and essential; remembering to cherish Water as if All Life depends on it, because undeniably... it does! [https://www.linkedin.com/in/elizabethsmedia/ LinkedIn]
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|Joe McGinn
|Hawaii Natural Farming
|Joe was born & raised on the island of Oʻahu – his family has agricultural roots that extend to Maui & Hawai`i island. As a Certified Korean Natural Farming (KNF) Instructor, Joe is an active community member promoting and sharing best practices for regenerative, local food production, celebration! He is a Native Hawaiian father of four young children, a member of the Screen Actors Guild & American Federation of Television & Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA), and an avid bodysurfer & Hawaiian (pakini bass) musician. His interests include indigenous micro-organisms (IMO), beneficial bacteria, beneficial fungi, odorless pig pens and chicken coops with feed production on-site; USDA certified organic, USDA GAP & GHP; entrepreneurship; and small, family farm start-ups. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/joemcginnhawaii/ LinkedIn]
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|Bryan Deans
|Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative
|Bryan is the founder of the Oglala Lakota Cultural & Economic Revitalization Initiative (OLCERI) and host of the Indigenous Wisdom & Permaculture Skills Convergence (IWPSC), on his permaculture demonstration site. He was born on Pine Ridge reservation and has been an incredible community resource for over 20 years. Bryan is skilled in permaculture design, integrating these teachings with his understanding of the Lakota ways, and a great communicator and teacher. He has worked as a project manager, in local government, an aerospace mechanic and engineer, welding teacher, and permaculture designer. He has envisioned, designed, and built all of the infrastructure and programs on the OLCERI homestead, including a wind and solar clean energy system, a farmer-rancher educational program for local people, wild horse rescue program, bio-diesel production, a sawmill for local lumber, and community garden that currently produces hundreds of pounds of food. OLCERI's latest projects are an Earthship-style rammed earth tire building that will house the Indigenous Wisdom Center, a Lakota language school and cultural preservation center. With his work with OLCERI Bryan has also designed the methodology for Food Distribution Network to supply fresh foods to people throughout Pine Ridge.
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|Dujon Dom Blondel
|Cultivating Classics
|Dujon is the founder of Cultivating Classics and has been practicing and teaching regenerative agriculture for 5+ years with most of his life spent in the soil, starting with his grandparents on their farm in Dominica to teaching workshops and tending cannabis in Northern California. He has spent time with Master Cho and his family in Hawaii, and has worked with Chris Trump, Jason Reisland, Cheryl Mendiola, and Preston Smith. He has obtained multiple certifications in the methodology, practice, and education of KNF and JADAM. He is a certified Soil-Steward and has completed multiple classes under Chris Trump. He has worked alongside Preston Smith to create KNF intensives across the PNW and continues to cultivate those learning spaces in North Carolina where he currently lives. He weaves his understanding of energetic, vibration, microbial networking, and health into his work and brings a new perspective on what it is to tend to the soil. He is driven to make this information as accessible as possible and continues to infuse all he creates with the intention to heal our planet, our bodies and our minds. He looks forward to helping develop LaLa Gardens as a hub for community, a space that educates, and grows food and medicine to tend to a village of people. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/dujon-blondel-00507a177/ LinkedIn]
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|Christy Thiel
|[https://www.christythiel.com Well Informed]
|Christy is a Master Nutrition Therapist and specializes in helping people understand the connections between food, our environments, mindsets and the role our endocannabinoid system plays in healing, balance and prevention. The power we have to heal ourselves, is at the core of Christy’s work. With over 15 years professional history in exercise, personal training, and a private nutrition practice, Christy went on to get more certifications and pursed a deeper ‘why’ to our disconnected, imbalanced, and chronically inflamed American culture. Since 2016 Christy has been presenting and leading practitioner education in the hemp industry. Christy produced and hosted a weekly show called Hemp Your Health. She interviewed experts, innovators and leaders in cannabis, health, and healing. Christy is a national educator on health’s missing links, fasting, detoxing, and the endocannabinoid system. She shares the wisdom, science, and resources of these in an approachable way with doable solutions and maintainable habits. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/christy-thiel/ LinkedIn]
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|Harold Davis III
|Indigenous Council of Five Nations Longhouse Confederacy in Kahnewake
|Harold works alongside the Traditional Kanienkahaka Council in Kahnawake through the historical Two Row Wampum dialogue. We focus on matrilineal protocols and heritage in commons based system design for open source blockchain & web3 innovations. We are also focused on extending accessibility to digital fabrication tools & skills to local & regional communities with an emphasis on Native modes of regenerative design shaping the innovation of local production, fabrication & distribution. We’ve also developed tooling alongside Harvard & Oxford’s open source Metagov research group; merging the worlds of digital communities and Native modes of bottom up organization with our open source development in PolicyKit & Clarity smart contracts in the Stacks community. Local data commons on the ground that speak to regenerative material archiving, full lifecycle prosumption and humane machine innovations is just the surface of what aligns us with LaLa gardens efforts of returning to the innovation lab that is our ceremonial garden. Skennen Kowa, Great Peace to you. [https://blog.blockstack.org/evangelist-spotlight-harold-davis/ Learn more about Harold here]
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|Sydney Harvey Griffith
|[http://regengarden.io Regen Garden], [http://permatours.org Permatours]
|Syd is a founder of Regen Garden, empowering artists, good causes, and collectors by aiding them in their collaborative creation and adoption of NFTs that drive change and build community. Syd is also the founder of Permatours, bringing actionable crews & future-focused communities together with hands-on-deck permaculture & sustainable construction-focused volunteer-driven support. She is a social-impact-oriented entrepreneur, community organizer, and event producer focused on equity, inclusion, and the regeneration of our planet. She is a net-weaver, passionate about bringing together catalysts for action, driven to use their gifts to serve humanity and the planet at large. [https://www.linkedin.com/in/sydneygriffith/ LinkedIn]
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=Regenerative Features=
As an established permaculture designed project, both as a site and social design. This is a Natural Farm utilizing indigenous technologies to restore the ecosystem as well as cultivate nutrient dense foods and medicines while preserving the garden into it's natural succession. We utilize inter-species systems and IMO (Indigenous Micro Organisms) technologies to build soil and increase diversity. We have water systems through catchment to hold and store water. We are a membership model open to a small number of artists residencies and short term immersion courses. We have community outreach through ignition of 'Trade Routes.' The industries that emerge through the function of an increasingly diverse and robust garden are utilizing a point system towards skill acquisition and shared economy. We are feet in the Soil, head in the Cloud (so offer a rooted model (sandbox) for web3 projects aligned with regenerative systems to keep things 'grounded' in real place and time, seasonal and living data responsive).

=FAQ=

* '''What is your legal structure? What type of or combination of legal entities will your project use to protect the land and the members?''' LaLa Gardens is an LLC that includes the land as a direct beneficiary and participant. The aim is to liberate this one acre showcase garden from all financial burdens, past, present, and future, while establishing agency for the land itself, with its stewards serving as legal representatives in human affairs. Our vision for a principle based 'garden-governance' model is here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY/edit?usp=sharing Other models contemplated and possible are sociocracy or holocracy. Also proposed: A membership model that is hands-on immersion experiences with a POAP badge system that leads into micro-equity or other Stewardship models.
* '''How are you integrating with the local community in your area?''' Deeply rooted locally, and through the various 'Trade-Routes' as we are referring to them. Communities that are in active participation and communication in NM, CO, WY, SD, WI, Northern CA and OR.
* '''How many people does your project need to maintain or run the property, and are there limits to growth or how many people can live on the land? How many people are currently involved in your project?''' 5 people on site to maintain the property is ideal, with room for 2-3 guests. Currently have 5 residents, 1 primary steward, 1 retired elder, 3 artists in residence. We also host and attend public work day events with our fellow permaculture guild and local farmers. It would make sense that as we grow, we secure additional housing nearby, and at other sites along the trade route, for both worker housing and hospitality. Here are modules we offer and communities we are directly involved with:
Modules and Templates:
** Poop is Poetry (closing the poop loop)
** Natural Farming: Immersions(short and long term), Consultations, Products, Spa events, Mini-Festivals and Online Curriculum.
** Community Cleanse
** Our Marketplace (feeding 20 families)
*** Communities serviced:
**** Dragonfly Earth Medicine (DemPure Certification)
**** Bloom Network
**** NoCo Permaculture Guild
**** Natural Farming and Permaculture Communities in WY, NM, CO, SD, WI, OR and BC, Canada. (S. Korea and Uganda via Rei Yoon, Hawaii, and elsewhere)
**** Residents of LaLa Gardens including 81 year old mother, 2 artists in residence, local neighbors and an ever increasing diversity of creatures.
**** Communities of Crestone, MOM DHO, SEEDS, Kernel.
**** PermaTours
**** Rebel Earth, Red Cloud and Re-Member (WY/SD Native Am. founded or servicing)
** LaLa Gardens LLC: Producing templates and models to be practiced and shared. Repeated and scaled.
** Potential Web3 alignments: • Bloom Network • Orgo.Earth • Hypha Tools • Harmony • Many within Kernel…
* '''What level of experience do you have budgeting for and actualizing a place-based/regenerative development? Do you need support designing plans and / or itemizing costs?''' Our local permaculture guild is quite skillful and resourceful. We created the following proposal for a festival client: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/10nuE2dcRQt6vZENP710G1Mnt_wTzRyGOh7ENhjmZKiA/edit?usp=sharing Always open to feedback and assistance. Generally start small, simple, and with what is in abundance. Would be open to assistance in creating budgets for hospitality, education, traveling events, and the integration of web3 tools into our model.

=History=
LaLa Gardens was established in 2014 or 2015 to be a living laboratory of regenerative development. It's name 'LaLa' derives from the desire to create a whimsical place for people to connect, a 'la la land'.

===Founder's statement===
[[#ChristinaTrout|Christina Trout]] is "a rebel who lives long enough to discover laws which are a joy to follow steps into a role more akin to diplomacy perhaps and within a garden, a Natural Garden, an emergent archetype STEWARD is born. I was born to this, have prepared for this without a plan or map and yet arrive with all the tools I need for the work of reciprocity; the new practice of diplomacy or bridging between agents of change, diverstiy and complexity regardless of system. All systems find their roots in Nature and Natural Law is informing all her systems of imbalances to be mended, attended to and celebrated. When I made the conscious decision to only speak and express truth in my life, I became an entrepreneur. I knew I couldn’t work for anyone else.<br>
I’ve lied in every resume I’ve submitted. My first waitressing job listed a fictional work history and I was short of being 21 (serving alcohol) by a few months but I knew I could figure it out and waiting tables was the perfect job for a traveler like me. I’d recently quit the military 2 years in of a 6 year commitment and I was in no mood to sign up for anything again, had been challenged by the commanding officer who signed my discharge to send him a post card when I found the freedom I was looking for. I have wanted to send one many times in my life since then and yet, this freedom has evolved to include forgiveness of myself for being so far out of any box as to be a challenge to understand, to play with...at times to like.<br>
Putting this bio together brought me face to face with the fact that I avoid becoming visible as a whole truth on paper. I have thought I don’t look good on paper. It’s hard to admit to the number of jobs I have quit or been fired from. I think I have been fired from nearly every job I have ever held. I can see you dear reader be- beginning to draw away. I would. And this vulnerability in becoming visible in this way, standing still and solid in my announcement of stewardship of this one acre, this difficult garden, this freedom oriented life carved from a lot of ‘no’s. stepping into visibility asking for a ‘yes’ from myself and others. For support, for collaboration, for trust.<br>
And here I am, so prepared for what is and what’s to come, I’m humbled by the perfection and the weight of agency; the subsequent challenge redefining everything including responsibility to response+ability. Yes, I am responsible for everything I’ve done, every thing that’s happening within my life including this crisis of ‘ownership’ or failing contractual/mortgage obligation to a bank. I am responsive+able as Steward, visioning to redefine according to living systems principles. Why do I see myself as prepared?<br>
Behind every no I’ve uttered has been a yes, a deeper attendance to the world I was born into, the one I celebrated as a child in mountains and streams, in animals I loved, in plants, color, writing, music and freedom to be in active love with these places and beings. I’m a nature girl and I never grew up. The tools I’ve gathered are ones to do with loving nature.<br>
A list of things I've said yes to:<br>
I designed, hand-printed and sewed clothing, selling them on the streets, in craft-fairs and later in stores. I am a published writer of creative non-fiction and poetry. I had a long running farmers’ market business in support of farmers with a local sourced food-line carried by over 300 retail shops and within a farmers’ coop we formed. I have made many things including wreaths, jewelry and art prints. I grow food. I am a permaculture practitioner in things to do with the garden and social design. I am a Natural Farmer, practicing JADAM, a sophisticated system of reinoculation with indigenous micro organisms (IMO). I can dive deeply into observational based citizen science, having practiced to know within my own environments. I have learned principly it’s through observation first we come to know Nature's systems and laws, and that it is mimicking practice which brings us into direct relationship and able responsiveness. I have observed we are a part of nature and as natural systems within ourselves, operate to our full potential in balance with Nature. As Steward, I step into my truest self, prepared for the work at hand.
The work I was born to love."

===Milestones===
* May 18, 2022: Tina of LaLa Gardens agrees to work with Regen Living DHO, to transition ownership from private to cooperative, develop a local currency, establish LaLa as an international model for regenerative development.
* June 25, 2022: Covenant for transfer of ownership from private (Tina) to LLC to cooperative signed by LLC members.
* June 28, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1NVZ6BP0gZveFk_4bMens9HJKTnJRd1u5/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA PBC is filed as Limited Cooperative Association Public Benefit Corporation] with the State of Colorado.
* June 28, 2022: Tides Foundation grants $25,000 to [http://centreforpeacefulsolutions.org Centre for Peaceful Solutions] to train [[#Stewards_Circle|LaLa Gardens Steward Circle]] in [[Regenerative communication|regenerative governance and communications]].
* July 19, 2022: [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sE4GzVrQBYLjZbgPe1Ub8NBqZ3PHNw2v/ LaLa Gardens Cooperative LCA BPC Bylaws are signed and enacted]

=Resources=
* Website: [https://lalagardens.com lalagardens.com]
* [https://www.notion.so/gitcoin/LaLa-Gardens-All-is-in-the-Small-2ac79b3a724e49e99590908e37a5ad28 Notion page]
* [https://vimeo.com/705005828/ce9fb5db7a Video overview]
* [https://miro.com/app/board/uXjVO0YQNWc=/ Private to Cooperative Ownership Blueprint on Miro]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xzhfFLhV1XT6EH1i7BEA9nh_ZrsBuWo7C-7dzkJNzbY Declaration of Interdependence]
* [https://discord.gg/n49BAnkBn8 Discord]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1l0zg-5fQ7NTLxfTrXnZjaxzasP91Bdpd-NHjeUdoNP8 NFT Microbe Heroes fundraising program]
* [https://www.youtube.com/c/LaLaGardens YouTube]
* [https://www.instagram.com/lalagrows Instagram]
* [[5 Future Archetypes]]
* [https://explore.joinseeds.earth/regenerative-civics-alliance/flow-outline/step-4-return-land-to-common-stewardship Regen Civics 'Return Land to Common Stewardship' priority].